Talk:Mung bean
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Does anyone know the actual nutritional value of Mung Beans?
Well done. Bensaccount 00:03, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I second this. Well done!--Jondel 01:57, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
It is excellent with chinese foods such as mung bean soup or sweet and pungent pork and makes an excellent cold salad bean as opposed to kidney beans.
This is not encyclopedic, nor is it really NPOV.
- Have removed this and added some related culinary information. honeydew 13:08, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Smell
According to the character Creed from the NBC show 'The Office', Mung beans "smell like death." --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.211.175.38 (talk • contribs).
Maybe rotting mung beans in a desk drawer do. That seemed more a detail in an example of a characters freakish or distasteful behavior. Whitebox 19:29, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hindi
What is this bean called in Hindi language?--Jondel 01:57, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
- I was wondering this myself. The Oxford English Dictionary discusses the confusing fact that Vigna mungo refers not to the mung but to the urd, but doesn't explain it very well. The main problem is that it phrases its explanations iin terms of English vs. Scientific names, without bringing up Hindi (or other Asian languages). It sums it up with a quotation: " 1908 G. WATT Commercial Products India 881 There has been some confusion regarding the nomenclature..due chiefly to Roxburgh having transposed the original Linnean names. P[haseolus] mungo, Linn., is the present plant udid or urd; while P. radiatus, Linn., is the plant known in the vernacular as mung." Does this mean that English usage agrees with Hindi ("vernacular") usage? Or does it mean that Roxburgh screwed it up and reveresed the vernacular names? I don't know. --Iustinus 17:09, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
- The Wikipedia articles agree with the OED: that urad dal (the black one) is V. mungo and the mung bean (the green one) is V. radiatus. Thus, the English name "mung" (the green one) agrees with the Hindi name mung dal (also referring to the green one) and not with the species name mungo, which refers to a different bean (the urad, the black one). Badagnani 03:05, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mung bean paste
there two type mung bean paste known there are plaint mung bean paste made from mung bean without added other ingridients only sugar and mung bean. Second are black bean paste made from mung bean aded with caw pan powder (the poder color are red) to make black bean paste.Daimond 15:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- Should this information be added to the article? In which culture is this mung bean paste made, and what dishes is it used to make? Badagnani 18:22, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Popular culture" section
I don't believe this edit to be encyclopedic. Badagnani 03:11, 25 October 2006 (UTC) I'll second that, change it to a npov for the tv addled who had to look it up :) Whitebox 19:32, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
