Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Mung bean


Related Topics

In the News (Mon 9 Nov 09)

  
  RIRDC: The New Rural Industries - A Hanbook for Farmers and Investors-mung bean
Mung beans are erect plants with few branches carrying pods borne in clusters near the top of the plant.
Mung beans are susceptible to diseases caused by fungi, bacteria and viruses but their effects are usually not severe in the growing crop.
Mung beans are a valuable field crop, both in terms of dollar returns and in their contribution to total farm income as a leguminous rotation crop.
www.rirdc.gov.au /pub/handbook/mungbean.html   (0 words)

  
 Mung Bean
The Chinese have been growing mung bean sprouts (nga choy or nga choi) for approximately 3,000 years.
Mung beans are a good source of Vitamins A, B, C and E, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, and amino acids.
Mung beans contain 20% protein and are a good source of foliate and dietary fiber.
www.iit.edu /~beans/mung.html   (0 words)

  
  Mung Bean - Glossary - Hormel Foods
Mung beans are prepared as whole, peeled, or split for use in pilafs, soups, stews, and bean dishes.
Another common use for this bean is to produce transparent bean sprouts, which become a crunchy and flavorful ingredient for salads, egg dishes, stir-fried dishes, and sandwiches.
The bean can be easily sprouted in approximately 2 days by dampening cheesecloth and placing the beans between the layers of the cloth, kept in a darkened room or area.
www.hormel.com /kitchen/glossary.asp?id=33526&catitemid=   (392 words)

  
  Bean - MSN Encarta
Mung bean sprouts are frequently used as a vegetable accompaniment in Chinese cooking, and mung bean starch is used to make noodles.
The principal disease affecting beans is a form of anthracnose caused by a fungus that attacks the stems, leaves, and pods of the bean.
The hyacinth bean is classified as Lablab purpureus, the soybean as Glycine max, the wild bean of the United States as Phaseolus polystachios, and the common garden bean of the United States as Phaseolus vulgaris.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761572253   (700 words)

  
 Mung Beans   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mung bean flour is not only used as a food but also as a soap substitute and serves as a replacement for soybeans in ketchup manufacturing.
Mung beans are said to have a cooling and astringent effect on fever.
Mung beans are sown towards the end of the wet season in order to ripen during the dry period.
www.innvista.com /health/foods/vegetables/mungbean.htm   (427 words)

  
 Cooking with the Mung Bean the Ayurvedic Way by Shreelata Suresh
Mung beans, and their split, hulled version, mung dhal, can be used to create main dishes, salads, soups, spreads, savories, beverages and desserts.
Mung beans combine well with a host of grains and flours, vegetables and greens, tart fruit, other sprouts, spices and herbs, and even rice, soy or nut milks.
Mung beans can be combined with brown or white rice, cracked wheat or oatmeal to make a one-dish meal known as khicharee.
www.boloji.com /ayurveda/av044.htm   (1133 words)

  
 Asia Food Glossary Page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Black mung beans are not to be confused with urad or urid dhal (Vigna mungo or Phaseolus mungo) because while the skins of both are fl, the inside of urad is very white.
Mung beans are easily digested, containing very few oligosaccharides which cause flatulence, and therefore are suitable for children or those with delicate digestive systems.
Mung beans are available either as the whole bean (mung saboot), split with skins left on (chilke mung dhal) or split and skins removed (mung dhal).
www.asiafood.org /glossary_1.cfm?alpha=M&wordid=2731&startno=27&endno=51   (484 words)

  
 Woodland Foods - Gourmet and Specialty wholesale dried ingredients for gourmet food service and industrial customers.
Mung Beans (Vigna Radiata) are small 1/4 inch, round, olive green, brown or fl in color.
Mung Beans are used in a variety of forms; whole, peeled, split, or ground.Mung Beans have a sweet flavor, soft texture, and are easy to digest.
Mung Beans have a long history in India where they originated though they were introduced to China many centuries ago.
www.woodlandfoods.com /products/MUNG_BEANS_WHOLE.html   (225 words)

  
 LaCook - Mung Beans
Mung beans and bean sprouts are widely used in Chinese cooking.
Dried mung beans are also ground into flour to make special green bean noodles such as mung beans threads.
To cook mung beans, place beans in a stockpot with water, cover and bring to a boil, remove cover, and let cook for 20 minutes over medium heat.
home.att.net /~lacook1.0/info/mungBeans.htm   (254 words)

  
 Bean Thread Noodles | Temple of Thai
Glass noodles are also known as 'woon-sen' in Thai, mung bean noodles, cellophane noodles, green bean thread noodles, dried bean thread, or 'fun-see' in Chinese.
Made of green mung bean flour, when dry these noodles are translucent, very thin and wiry like nylon fishing line, and difficult to handle.
Made from green mung beans, glass noodles are a good source of protein, selinium, and iron, especially for vegetarians.
www.templeofthai.com /food/noodles/beanthread-3530161025.php   (265 words)

  
 His Healing Ways - How To Grow Large Mung Bean Sprouts
Soak the mung bean seeds in lukewarm water (90-95 F) for 2 to 4 hours, or at room temperature (68-72 F) overnight.
This is to bring all of the mung bean seeds have a uniform moisture content, and to begin the germination processes in the seeds.
As you can see, from one and one half ounce of mung bean seed there one pound and one ounce of large mung bean sprouts, that is over a ten times increase.
www.hishealingways.com /lgmung/lgmung.html   (799 words)

  
 Mung Beans
A small dried bean with yellow flesh and a skin that is normally green but sometimes yellow or fl.
The average protein of Australian Mung Beans is 23% and the average carbohydrate content is 62%.
Mung Beans are high in protein, contain the minerals calcium, iron, potassium and phosphorus and vitamins A, B complex and small amounts of C. Nutritionally this product resembles other members of the legume family.
www.grainfieldsaustralia.com /US/ingredients/mung_beans.shtml   (95 words)

  
 Korean Temples and Food - AsiaFood   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Soak mung beans in water until soft, drain and peel off the skins.
Grind the mung beans with 2/3 cups of water in a blender.
Briefly dip the mung bean sprouts in boiling water, squeeze out the excess water, and season with salt and sesame seeds.
www.asiafood.org /koreantemplefood/mungbean.html   (104 words)

  
 Identification of a Mung Bean Arabinofuranosyltransferase That Transfers Arabinofuranosyl Residues Onto (1, 5)-Linked ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The highest enzyme activity was detected in the elongating regions of mung bean hypocotyls.
Identification of ArafT in mung bean Golgi and the availability of a facile assay for identification of this class of glycosyltransferase provide some of the tools required to increase our understanding of pectin synthesis in plants at both the molecular and biochemical levels.
Mung bean seeds were grown for 3 d in the dark at 25C.
www.redorbit.com /news/science/587145/identification_of_a_mung_bean_arabinofuranosyltransferase_that_transfers_arabinofuranosyl_residues/index.html?source=r_science   (4823 words)

  
 The Vegetarian Society - Beating Diabetes - mung bean and vegetable cottage pie
Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the onion, carrots and celery for 5 minutes.
Add the cooked mung beans, cayenne pepper, marjoram, sage, tomato purée, yeast extract and stock.
Put the bean mixture into the base of a large casserole dish and top with the mashed potato.
www.vegsoc.org /cordonvert/recipes2/diabetic3.html   (140 words)

  
 mung bean definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
mung bean definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
green or yellow bean: a small green or yellow bean that is dried and sometimes split.
bean plant: a plant that produces mung beans.
encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861631915/mung_bean.html   (95 words)

  
 Bean, Mung   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mung beans for food are used mainly as the sprouts.
Mung beans are grown much as other dry beans.
Mung beans are also grown for hay in the southwestern states of the U.S. Season, bloom to harvest: 2 to 3 months.
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/Crops/BeanMung.html   (138 words)

  
 Kitchen Mailbox: Mung bean pancakes a spicy adventure
Mung beans are small (a little bit larger than a pinhead) dried yellow beans.
And the mung beans are packaged the same as any other dried beans.
Grind the beans while gradually adding 1/2 to 1 cup (we used about 1/2 cup) cold water until the beans form a fairly smooth paste.
www.post-gazette.com /food/20020822mailbox1.asp   (725 words)

  
 FAQs for Mung Bean Nuclease, Nucleases, New England Biolabs
Mung Bean Nuclease can be used to chew back a 3' extension, but DNA Polymerase I, Large (Klenow) Fragment may be a slightly better choice due to Mung Bean Nuclease's ability to act at nicks and degrade ends as they "breathe".
A2: Mung Bean Nuclease is active in NEBuffers 1, 2, and 4.
Although Mung Bean Nuclease can inactivated by heat, this is not recommended because the DNA begins to "breathe" before the Mung Bean Nuclease is inactivated and undesirable degradation occurs at breathing sections.
www.neb.com /nebecomm/products/faqproductM0250.asp   (408 words)

  
 Bean, Mung -- Phaseolus aureus Roxb.
The principal crop from which edible bean sprouts are produced is the mung bean.
The 12 to 24 inch tall mung bean plants produce clusters of slender, 3 to 4 inch long, flish, fuzzy pods with very small brown seeds.
Gardeners should use the same cultural practices as for green bush beans, except that pods should be left on the bush as long as needed for the beans to dry.
edis.ifas.ufl.edu /MV022   (507 words)

  
 Native Biofilms on Mung Bean Sprouts
In this study we used a scanning electron microscope to study naturally occurring biofilms on the surface of mung bean sprouts.
Technical Abstract: Native biofilms present on the adaxial surface of cotyledons of mung bean sprouts were studied by use of scanning electron microscopy.
Biofilms were abundant on the plant surfaces and were comprised of rod-shaped bacteria, cocci-shaped bacteria or yeasts, often with one type of microbe predominant.
www.sproutnet.com /Research/native_biofilms_on_mung_bean_spr.htm   (277 words)

  
 Ayurvedic Foods -- Mung Beans
Mung beans are one of the most cherished foods in ayurveda.
Persons recuperating are often recommended khichari, a combination of rice and mung beans, because of their ability to provide a good level of nourishment without overtaxing the digestion.
Mung beans can be eaten on their own, or combined with rice to make khichari, or combined with vegetables and greens to make hearty soups or ground into flour to be used to make crepes or added to breads.
www.ayurbalance.com /explore_foodmungbeans.htm   (472 words)

  
 The economics of mung bean [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek] cultivation in Thailand   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A farm survey was carried out in 1992 among 138 individual farm households located in seven provinces in Thailand to provide a detailed input-output characterization of mung bean [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek] cultivation in Thailand, to analyse its profitability, to investigate the major constraints, and to assess the adoption of modern mung bean varieties.
The survey data were analysed for dry season lowland and wet season upland mung bean growers, separately and as a whole.
The supportive role of government policies in increasing the adoption of improved mung bean technologies, as well as the importance of close collaboration among farmers, extension services, researchers, and traders are highlighted.
www.trophort.com /information/data/B01/S72/JAN95THE1581574.html   (274 words)

  
 Sprouts: Mung Bean | Seeds & Bulbs
Mung bean sprouts have a wonderful crunchy texture and a flavor similar to fresh garden peas.
Mung bean sprouts have been grown by the Chinese for over 5000 years.
Mung bean sprouts are high in vitamins A, B, C, and E, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, and amino acids.
www.gardenguides.com /seedcatalog/vegetables/sproutsmungbean.htm   (198 words)

  
 Bunny Pie: sweet mung bean soup
pour the beans and the water it had been soaking in into a pot.
ha ha, i was looking online for a mung bean soup recipe, for some reason mine always come out funny.
About 4 c of water to start is good, and when everything was done, some of the mung beans had broken down...but that makes it better.
tart.hellogirlfriend.com /2006/06/sweet-mung-bean-soup.html   (492 words)

  
 Hearty Whole Mung Bean Soup Recipe | Recipezaar
After coming across mung beans in my local market one day, I was curious as to just what to do with them.
Mung beans are also a good source of dietary fiber.
When the beans have burst and the water has cooked off, add the chicken stock to the beans and bring to a boil.
www.recipezaar.com /114716   (496 words)

  
 Mung Bean Nuclease, EPICENTRE® Biotechnologies
Mung Bean Nuclease is a single-strand-specific nuclease purified from sprouts of the mung bean Vigna radiata.
Because Mung Bean Nuclease has higher specificity for single-stranded DNA and RNA than S1 Nuclease, it is the enzyme of choice for most applications requiring a single-strand-specific nuclease.
Unit Definition: One unit of Mung Bean Nuclease converts 1 µg of heat-denatured calf thymus DNA to an acid-soluble form in 1 minute at 37°C in 30 mM sodium acetate (pH 4.6), 50 mM NaCl, 1 mM zinc acetate, and 0.01% Triton X-100.
www.epibio.com /item.asp?ID=322&CatID=39&SubCatID=113   (337 words)

  
 Eating China – Mung Bean Soup Recipe
Sweet Mung Bean Soup 綠豆湯 (lu dou tang) A refreshing summer snack or dessert.
Soak the beans overnight, or least for 4 hours, in plenty of water.
Mung beans, according to Chinese, have a 'cooling' effect on the body, so this is a very popular snack in summer.
www.eatingchina.com /recipes/mung-bean-soup.htm   (123 words)

  
 Superfood No. 9: Sprouts
Some are spicy (radish and onion sprouts), some are hardy and often used in Asian cuisines (mung bean), while others are more delicate (alfalfa), and add texture and moistness to salads and sandwiches.
A partial list of seeds, beans, legumes and grains appropriate for sprouting includes alfalfa, cabbage, clover, fenugreek, mustard, radish, sesame, sunflower, adzuki beans, chickpeas, lentils, mung beans, green peas, wheat, rye and triticale.
Mung bean sprouts can be frozen in an airtight bag for several months, if they are to be used in cooking.
www.oprah.com /presents/2005/young/life/life_sprouts.jhtml   (521 words)

  
 Mung Bean Sprouts
Mung Beans are grown in China by farmers - often with little machinery.
Note: Occasionally Mungs will have some small percentage of hard seed (seeds that are as hard after soaking as before because they don't absorb any water).
Mung Bean Sprouts are most commonly seen big and thick rooted.
www.sproutpeople.com /seed/mung.html   (0 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.