Can men lose weight by drinking more barley and mung bean soup?

Job's tears is one of the most common staple foods. Many people add a little Job's tears when cooking porridge. In fact, it is also very good to use Job's tears to make soup. Eating more Job's tears can help the body's metabolism, and has a diuretic and edema-relieving effect. Therefore, using Job's tears to lose weight is perfect for men. Mung beans are a holy product for cooling off and diuresis. Can the combination of the two in making soup help lose weight?

Recommend two barley weight loss recipes:

Hawthorn and Barley Water:

Function: Diuresis, elimination of stagnation, and weight loss.

Ingredients: 2 liang (60 g) of hawthorn, 3 liang (90 g) of raw coix seeds, 2 pieces of tangerine peel.

Method: Wash all the ingredients, soak them in 10 bowls of cold water, cook for two hours, and add a little rock sugar to taste before turning off the heat. (Note: rock sugar cannot be cooked for too long, otherwise it will turn sour)

Explanation: Raw coix seed is diuretic and can help eliminate excess water in the body; hawthorn is excellent at eliminating meat stagnation and can help break down fat accumulated in the intestines, and is specially designed for carnivores.

Taboo: People who like to eat too much should not eat this, otherwise the more they eat, the more they will whet their appetite, and their waistline will be reduced. People with excessive stomach acid should not eat this, otherwise stomach medicine and antacids will not help.

Barley and Tangerine Soup: Ingredients: 150 grams of barley kernels, 500 grams of seedless tangerines, and appropriate amounts of white sugar, osmanthus salt, and wet starch.

Preparation: Peel the seedless mandarin oranges, break them into pieces, peel the thin skin, and cut them into small dices. Wash the coix seeds with water and soak them in a bowl for later use. Take an aluminum pot and pour an appropriate amount of water into it. Put the coix seeds in and boil them. Then simmer over low heat. When the coix seeds are cooked, add sugar, osmanthus salt, and tangerine dices and boil them. Thicken with wet starch and serve.

Effects: Job's tears are sweet and mild in nature, and have the effects of strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, reducing swelling and anti-cancer. In recent years, studies have found that Job's tears also have the effects of strengthening the skin and reducing weight. Oranges are rich in glucose, sucrose, carotene, vitamins B1, B2, C, etc., which can regulate human metabolism and have a moisturizing effect.

Mung Bean Soup for Weight Loss

How to make Barley and Mung Bean Weight Loss Soup:

1. Wash the coix seeds, soak them in clean water for an hour and then remove them.

2. Put the soaked barley into the rice cooker, add appropriate amount of water (covering the barley), steam until the switch pops up and take out.

3. Wash the mung beans, soak them in water for about an hour, then pour them into a pot, add 10 cups of water, and cook until the mung beans crack.

4. Add the coix seeds and cook until the mung beans and coix seeds are fully cooked.

5.Finally, add sugar to taste and cook until well combined.

Nutrition:

Job's tears: Job's tears are rich in carbohydrates, the main components of which are starch and sugars, and contain nutrients such as fat, protein, coix ester, leucine, satiate, vitamin B1, etc. Job's tears can inhibit the proliferation of pain cells and can be eaten by people with various malignant tumors; it also promotes metabolism and reduces gastrointestinal burden; and has the effects of promoting water permeation, strengthening the spleen, removing numbness, clearing heat and removing pus.

Mung bean: Mung bean is rich in nutrients, and has the effects of increasing appetite, lowering blood lipids, lowering cholesterol, resisting allergies, detoxifying, and protecting the liver; Mung bean tastes sweet, is cool in nature, and enters the heart and stomach meridians; it has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving summer heat and relieving restlessness, quenching thirst and strengthening the stomach, and promoting diuresis and reducing swelling; it is mainly used to treat summer heat and thirst, damp heat diarrhea, edema and abdominal distension, ulcers and swelling, erysipelas, mumps, pox, and poisoning by metal, stone, arsenic, and plants. Mung bean is cold in nature, and people with weak and cold constitutions should not eat too much or for a long time. People with weak and cold spleen and stomach diarrhea should be careful when eating it.