Pea efficacy, effects and contraindications

Peas are a kind of green food suitable for all kinds of people, including animals. They have extremely high nutritional value, but most people don’t know the specific nutritional value. They only know that it is very nutritious and it also has good effects. However, everything has certain taboos, including peas. So what are the effects, functions and taboos of peas?

The whole plant is green, smooth and hairless, and covered with powdery frost. The leaves have 4-6 leaflets, the stipules are larger than the leaflets, leaf-shaped, cordate, and have fine teeth on the lower edge. The leaflets are ovate; the flowers are solitary or arranged in racemes in the leaf axils; the calyx is bell-shaped, deeply 5-lobed, and the lobes are lanceolate; the corolla has a variety of colors, which vary with the variety, but are mostly white and purple, and the stamens (9+1) are bipartite. The ovary is glabrous, the style is flat, and has whiskers on the inside. The pods are swollen, oblong, with an acute apex, nearly straight back, and a hard papery endothelium on the inside; there are 2-10 seeds, which are round, green in color, with or without wrinkles, and turn yellow after drying.

Peas are also called Bi beans, wheat beans, and Huai beans. The young pods and seedlings can be used as vegetables, and the seeds can be eaten and used to make starch. The protein content of dry peas is about 20%, and carbohydrates are about 50%. Every 100 grams of fresh peas contains 70 grams of water, 7 grams of protein, 3 grams of dietary fiber, and other vitamins and minerals. Peas contain substances such as gibberellins, gibberellins and lectins, which have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. The crude fiber contained in peas can promote large intestine motility. Peas are sweet and mild in nature, and enter the spleen and stomach meridians. They are edible for most people.

1. Peas can be antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. Peas contain some anthracened acid and levofloxacin, which are natural antibacterial ingredients. After people eat them, they can eliminate various inflammations in the body, promote the body's metabolism, and are of great benefit to improving people's physical health.

2. Green peas can improve the body's immunity. Peas contain a variety of nutrients that are beneficial to the human body, especially high-quality protein. This substance can repair damaged human cells and increase the activity of immune cells, which is very beneficial to improving human immunity and disease resistance.

3. Peas can prevent and fight cancer . Peas contain a variety of vitamins and minerals, as well as a large amount of carotene. These substances can eliminate various viruses in the human body after entering the human body, and can also reduce the damage of viruses to human tissue cells, thereby reducing the formation of cancer cells and greatly reducing the incidence of human cancer.