Are edamame and soybean the same thing?

Soybean and edamame are the same thing.

Soybean, commonly known as soybean, is the seed of the butterfly plant soybean. It is an annual herbaceous crop, with a height of 30 ~ 90 cm and a stout square diamond-shaped stem. Pods are rectangular, flat, 5 ~ 6 cm long, drooping and densely covered with yellow slender bristles; 2 ~ 4 seeds, oblate when fresh, 0.8 ~ 1.5 cm long, light green, yellow when dry, yellow-green or purple-black.

Spring edamame is vegetable soybean, also known as edamame, green edamame and white edamame, which refers to green pod soybean harvested between grain filling period and early maturity period. The pods are tender green, green and lovely. When the edamame is ripe, it is the familiar soybean.

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Nutritional highlights: Soybean is rich in protein, potassium and magnesium, vitamin B group and dietary fiber, and also contains health-care components such as saponin, phytic acid and oligosaccharide, which is very beneficial for protecting cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and controlling blood pressure. In addition, eating edamame in summer can also prevent malnutrition, low physique and easy heatstroke caused by sweating and loss of appetite.

The dietary fiber content of tender soybean is as high as 4.0%, while the fiber content of celery stalk, which has always been regarded as the fiber champion, is only 1.2%. Other well-known high-fiber vegetables, such as kale, spinach, amaranth, broccoli and leek, contain 1.6%, 1.7%, 1.8%, 1.6% and/kloc-respectively. From this point of view, edamame deserves to be the fiber champion in vegetables.

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Maodou-Baidu Encyclopedia