What is the difference between green beans and asparagus beans?

Engaged in the cultivation of legumes people started a long time ago.There are ancient writings, which are about 5000 years old. This plant was also mentioned in them. And the birthplace of such a culture as beans is America.

The content of chemical elements in beans is very diverse. It contains a lot of chromium, magnesium, zinc, calcium, potassium, iron. All nutrients serve as protection for health from the negative effects of radicals, accelerating skin aging. People who often eat this vegetable have healthy skin color and beautiful shiny hair.

String bean is a universal culture, since it can be consumed both in an immature form by pods, and fully matured in the form of beans. This vegetable before eating is recommended to cook at high temperatures. Young fruits are not made to cook for a long time, so that the most useful properties and nutritional elements are not lost. Separate modifications of this useful culture are called asparagus. They are semi-sugar, not containing coarse fiber threads.

The shape of a vegetable can be flattened or rounded, it is diverse in color and can be:

• red;
• black;
• greenish;
• whitish;
• yellow;
• multi-colored;
• lilac.

The calorie content of raw vegetables is 24 kcal, and boiled 48-128 kcal.

The asparagus variety is recognized as a subspecies of siliconic culture. Asparagus is endowed with juicy pulp, soft leaf pods that do not have hard threads and strong partitions. Solid doors protect the vegetable from mechanical damage and invasions of harmful insects. The difference in selectively grown asparagus varieties is rather fragile pods. For this indicator, they are appreciated by gourmets around the world.

The edible part of the culture is whole young pods, which grew 8-10 days. Differently called shoulder blades. The pods taste soft and differ from green beans in that they lack hard fibers.

Beans contribute to the acceleration of water-salt metabolism, removes edema, prevents the occurrence of insomnia, rescues with neurological pathologies. But there are also contraindications for beans. People who have suffered from constipation are advised to use beans together with other products, for example, with dill. It neutralizes the harm of a vegetable in the form of bloating. Older people are not recommended to abuse the vegetable. In case of gastric ulcer, inflammation of the gallbladder, duodenal disease, it is forbidden to use this type of vegetable. In exceptional circumstances, individual intolerance may occur.

Signs of culture:

• elongated pods up to 45 centimeters;
• shape of flat or thin tubules;
• no filaments;
• pleasant taste, bulk fruits.

A vegetable can be a bushy, half-growing, climbing. It is uncomplicated and picky culture. It is grown everywhere and everywhere - in summer cottages and in hotbeds. Good varieties of beans: "Golden Nectarine", "Royal purple pod", "Fana", "Winner". An interesting variety of asparagus bean is the Vigna pod. It is grown in the Asian part. Thin tubular fruits with a length of one meter are considered to be its hallmark.

For all varieties of beans, the growing process is almost identical, the difference is small. A very important point - the harvest. It is necessary to have time to remove the shoulder blades until they are swollen, and the grains are the size of wheat grain, otherwise the fruits will become coarse, fibrous and lose their original taste.

All varieties of vegetables are considered thermophilic annual crops. Lashes can have a three meter length. It blooms a vegetable medium-sized pinkish, whitish, red flowers, it looks beautiful, if you fix the stems. As a result, the culture can be planted in greenhouses or run along the fence. She will create green walls. Two in one - and delicious and aesthetic.

To correctly sow beans, you need to follow important rules:

• the plant does not like soil with clay and acidic soil;
• the culture stretches to the sun and open spaces, but is afraid of the winds, because the stems twist and break easily;
• the land should be loosened and fertilized with compost and mineral supplements for legumes;
• It is recommended to apply ash as top dressing at least three times in one season: during sowing, flowering and after 2 weeks;
• it is important to observe crop rotation and plant crops only on the place where legumes did not grow last year.

Culture consumption has a healing effect on women's health. The positive properties of beans are as follows.

• Restores the activity of the nervous system. Emotional people become more restrained, PMS are better tolerated.
• The hormonal rhythm is stabilized. In particular, it is of great importance during pregnancy, with the onset of menopause and during the restructuring of the body.
• Supports the immune system due to the iron content responsible for hemoglobin levels.
• Regulates metabolism. Beans can be eaten by women who are afraid of losing weight.
• Keeps tooth enamel.
• It is used as a prophylaxis for urinary system diseases.
• Dissolves salt.
• Removes toxins and toxic substances from the body.
• Favorably affects the skin, relieves inflammation, regulates sebum production.

For diabetics and people suffering from tuberculosis, doctors advise you to include this fruit in your diet. White and red vegetables contain the substance arginine, which is a natural analogue of insulin. Proved beneficial effect of the fruit in the prevention of cancer.

Women who consume a vegetable 3 times a week show 24 percent less breast cancer. But the principle of such an action is not yet clear to the end. American scientists have only revealed that this is influenced by flavonol, which also reduces blood pressure and stimulates brain activity.

Useful product is called when manufacturers have not used harmful preservatives. Look carefully at the label. The composition of the product should be as follows: water, beans, sugar, salt. If the brine is cloudy, there is a precipitate, a bad flavor or even worse - a jar is swollen, all this indicates that it is better not to use such beans. Most likely, it is inedible.

If there is absolutely no time for cooking dinner, and the family is already hungry, it will help out a simple and quick dish. A package of frozen vegetables can be served as a separate dish, a side dish or to prepare a salad. Shake the beans out of the bag into a thick griddle. You need to pour a little water and 2 minutes to extinguish the vegetable with the lid closed. Put a piece of butter, stir. You can turn off the gas - then the snack with a hot crispy crust is ready. But you can continue cooking.

In a slightly fried dish add chopped tomatoes, garlic, skipped through garlic dressing, salt, pepper, spices to taste.

Also, this vegetable is in perfect harmony with mushrooms, of which mushrooms are cooked the fastest. It is necessary to put the mushrooms in the pan, add oil. When the mushrooms let the water in, fill in the onion, cut into half rings, and later throw the pods of beans.Vegetable stew must be stewed under a lid for 15 minutes on low heat. This vegetable and its effect on the body are studied with curiosity by doctors all over the world.

Culture is among the ten most sought-after products in all countries of the world. According to the protein content of the vegetable is able to replace meat products in the post or diet.

The process of growing asparagus beans and its further application see below.