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a tiny bean that becomes bean sprouts, dessert, and an entire ancient cuisine
means a small green legume, grown for its edible seeds and famous for sprouting into bean sprouts, used across South and East Asian cooking.
from From Hindi 'mūng', itself descending from Sanskrit 'mudga', the ancient name for this bean — a word that traveled with the crop along trade and kitchen routes for thousands of years before English borrowed it whole.
- sprout star
- those crunchy bean sprouts are just mung beans, woken up
- sweet side
- China turns it into popsicles and pastry filling
- ancient crop
- farmed in India over 4,000 years ago
- protein punch
- about 24 percent protein when dried
- green skin
- its skin hides a pale yellow inside
for instance
mung bean — legume crop grown across asia, india produces ~3 million tons annually
mung sprouts — sprouted mung beans commonly used in chinese and southeast asian cuisine
mung dal — split mung bean staple in indian cuisine, particularly in khichdi and dals