Description
Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus), also known as Goa bean, four-angled bean, four-cornered bean, Manila bean, Mauritius bean is a tropical legume plant native to New Guinea. It grows lavishly in hot, humid countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia to India, Burma, Thailand and Sri Lanka. It is a climbing plant in the fabaceae family and similar in appearance and growth habit to the ordinary garden pole bean. Almost all the parts of the plant including immature pods, mature seeds, tender leaves and shoots, flowers and tubers are used in the East-Asian cuisine. Leaves can be eaten like spinach, flowers can be used in salads, tubers can be eaten raw or cooked, and seeds can be used in similar ways as the soybean. Wing beans offer an abundance of essential nutrients, including protein, complex carbohydrates, B vitamins, calcium, iron and fiber due to which it is found grown throughout the world.
Apart from their pleasant nutty flavor and delightful taste, winged bean is a good source of nutrients, vitamins and minerals. Consuming 182 gram of winged beans offers 5.242 mg of Copper, 24.46 mg of Iron, 6.772 mg of Manganese, 1.875 mg of Vitamin B1, 47.1 g of Total dietary Fiber, 821 mg of Phosphorus and 53.96 g of Protein. Moreover many Amino acids 1.387 g of Tryptophan, 2.146 g of Threonine, 2.672 g of Isoleucine, 4.545 g of Leucine and 3.888 g of Lysine are also found in 182 gram of winged beans.
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