2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Beans are the main cereal and legume crop in Bulgaria. It is a valuable food for mankind because it has a high nutritional value and excellent taste. These invaluable advantages have helped the beans to grow traditional Bulgarian culture and to be established in the traditional Bulgarian cuisine as a main dish.
But some of its features must be taken into account so as not to overdo it. Despite all the known benefits of beans, it is a indigestible food. This is due to the high content of cellulose in it and a slightly higher percentage of fat compared to other cereals such as lentils and peas.
What is contained in bean beans
24% crude protein;
1.8% fat;
47.3% carbohydrates;
3.8% cellulose;
4.9% minerals and B vitamins.
By protein content of beans inferior to most legumes, but equal to that of meat, fish and some other animal products.
The beans are used mainly as a legume. It can be used to prepare various main dishes with beans such as mashed potatoes, bean soups, stuffed peppers, bean salads and many more options.
Smilyan beans are one of the few Bulgarian food products that have a patent for a brand and is named after the Smolyan village of Smilyan. The most delicious Rhodope dishes are prepared from it.
Bean beans can be used as an indispensable source of nutrients in animal husbandry. Its use as a concentrated feed for pig and poultry feed is very common, but it is important to mention that this raw material is only available to animals in cooked form because it contains the glycoside phaseolunatin, which is poisonous when raw.
Apart from cooking, the beans are also wonderful in canned form. Canned beans are prepared from all its varieties, as well as in the state of green beans.
Bean flour can be added to wheat flour up to 10% and used to make breads and pasta that have a higher protein content.
Bean protein not only contained in its seeds. Straw and chaff of beans contain 3 to 6 times more protein, which makes it very valuable for animal feed.
Furthermore beans has great agrotechnical significance. It is harvested relatively early compared to other agronomic crops, after which the soil is free of weeds and enriched with nitrogen. These features of beans make it an important factor in organic farming.
See how beans are grown.
Historical data on beans
Useful beans have been found in tombs in Peru and in the Valley of the Dead in Arizona. Beans aged 4,300 to 6,000 years have been found in the caves of Tamaulipas in Mexico.
Some types of beans were grown 5000-6000 years before the new era in South and Southwest Asia.
The common bean was brought in the 16th century from Cuba to Spain, and from there to Bulgaria.
In our country it is mentioned for the first time growing beans in the historical documents from 1498-1513.
The most favorable conditions for growing beans in our country has in Northeastern Bulgaria.
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