Legumes

Legumes must be cooked before they are consumed because it improves their nutritional value, aids digestion and eliminates any harmful toxins. Legumes contain nutrients that are helpful. There different types of which are:

• Legume flours – chickpea flour (besan), lentil flour and soy flour
• Dried beans and peas – red kidney beans, haricot beans, chickpeas and lentils
• Fresh beans and peas – green beans, butter beans, green peas, broad beans and snow peas.
• Soy products – tofu (bean curd) and soybeans

Eat more fruits and vegetables every day to get the full range of health benefits. Listed are good for you to built a healthy living:

• Blue and purple foods – like blueberries and eggplant contain anthocyanins, which may help protect the body from cancer.
• White foods – like cauliflower contain sulforaphane, which may also help protect against some cancers.
• Red foods – like tomatoes and watermelon contain lycopene, which is thought to be important for fighting prostate cancer and heart disease.
• Green vegetables – like spinach and kale contain lutein and zeaxanthin, which may help protect against age-related eye disease.

Nutritional evidence

Legumes contain relatively low quantities of the essential amino acid methionine.  A combination of legumes with grains can provide all necessary amino acids for vegetarians. Common examples of such combinations are dal with rice by Indians, and beans with corn tortillas, tofu with rice, and peanut butter with wheat bread.

You can get good healthy vegetarian weight loss diets all over the world. With all of this information and that of the nutritional value that you can get from different vegetables you will have the foundations for building good eating habits that can last you through your lifetime.