The Nutritional Value of Large Edamame and How to Choose Cultivars for Planting
When people mention edamame, many will surely think of its delicious taste, especially when eating late-night snacks in the city, where edamame is one of the must-have dishes to go with drinks. Although edamame costs just a few yuan per jin, its nutritional benefits are beyond what you can imagine. And nowadays, edamame is increasingly favored by the public, and growing edamame has become one of the important ways to adjust the agricultural structure and help farmers prosper. So what nutritional value does large edamame have? How should cultivars for edamame planting be chosen? Let's take a look.
What nutritional value does large edamame have?
Large edamame is rich in plant protein and various mineral elements, and it also contains the various vitamins and dietary fiber the human body needs. Among the many nutrients in large edamame, protein content is the highest, comparable to meat and eggs, making it the only complete-protein food among plant foods. In terms of edible benefits, large edamame can strengthen the spleen and soothe the middle, moisten dryness and reduce water retention, and clear heat and detoxify.
How should cultivars for edamame planting be chosen?
Generally speaking, the key to improving the economic benefit of edamame planting lies in choosing early-maturing, high-yielding cultivars, and early-maturing edamame is a spring soybean grown mainly for fresh beans. Good early edamame should have the characteristics of high yield, large pods and large beans, and excellent taste, while also requiring a shorter growth period. Early-maturing edamame generally reaches the market earlier, so it has a price advantage, and early edamame also has the advantages of early harvest, early plot clearing, and increased flexibility in crop rotation.
Common early-maturing edamame cultivars include Ningshu 60 (special for protected cultivation), Qimaodou No. 1 (special for protected cultivation), Zaosheng Bainiao, Zaofeng No. 2, Shenxian No. 2, Shanxi Xindou No. 1, and Wuyin No. 9 vegetable edamame, among others.
The suitable sowing period for these cultivars starts in mid-April, using staged sowing, with yield and the number of days from sowing to harvest as the main evaluation indicators. The earlier the sowing, the longer the growth period, and the more favorable it is for high yield.
The above is an introduction to the nutrition and cultivars of edamame, and when planting edamame, everyone should not blindly choose early-maturing cultivars; the ones suited to local environmental conditions are the best.
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