Question about Mung Beans

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Yuba City, California, has a large population from the Indian sub-continent, and Winco, a regional chain, has specialty foods catering to their particular tastes. While there recently, I asked an Indian woman how to sprout _Mong_ beans. Her reply was they are cooked, not sprouted. Question: are these the same as Mung beans that I've read about for sprouting, or a different animal entirely? There were several other types of beans, whose names I cannot remember. TIA JHL. Ps: The bagged spices smelled POTENT.

-- JH Lyons (shotgun12@att.net), October 08, 1999

Answers

Response to Is these it?

JH, yes, mung beans are the sprouting kind. I don't think beans are sprouted in India, therefore your informant was correct when she said they are cooked,not sprouted (as it applies to Indian culture, anyway). Far as I know, you can sprout any bean.

See this University of Florida site for information about sprouting mung and other beans.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/scripts/htmlgen.exe?DOCUMENT_MV024

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), October 08, 1999.


Response to Is these it?

OG, Yup. JH, I investigated the Indian stores here for something interesting to store--didn't find anything that wasn't better from the regular grocery. I do use henna for my hair though. SAme for the Chinese canned goods although I got a couple of cans of grilled eel.

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), October 08, 1999.

Response to Is these it?

Grilled eel? Now that's a converstation can.

-- Carol (glear@usa.net), October 08, 1999.

Response to Is these it?

If you do nut sprout the mung beans the sugars will be more complex and thus more nutritionaly dence.

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), October 09, 1999.

Response to Is these it?

err..I maen "do not"

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), October 09, 1999.


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