Winged bean (vegetable substitute for meat). Winged bean plant includes an easy crop to be planted. Would not be surprised if most of the archipelago can be cultivated winged bean. Therefore, this single plant has several local names.Among others cipir (Central Java and East Java), jaat(Sunda), kaceper (Madura), kalongkang (Bali), nuts Blimbing (Padang), and the pea embing (Palembang).There are two types of winged bean plants, the consumption of winged bean (Psophocarpus teragonolobus), and winged forest (Psophocarpus polustris). Winged bean consumption may be familiar. While winged forests is not widely cultivated and used
as ground cover estates. You can meet him in the oil palm and rubber.
Winged flowers were quite beautiful. Usually white, some are blue or violet. It looked like a butterfly, and blooms in the morning. The fruit is not less interesting. Rectangular-shaped pods, each facet of their wings, and jagged edges. Therefore, he also referred to as "Winged bean" or winged bean.
Winged fruits hanging, with lengths ranging from 15-40 cm. Green when young and turn brown to black when ripe. Each pod has about 8-10 seeds are small and round.Young seeds are yellow and turn brown to black when old.
Nutrient content
(100 grams): Calories 405 Kcal, 32.80 gra protein, 17 grams fat, 36.50 grams of carbohydrates.
Winged bean plants grow vines, bushy. Height can reach 3-4 m, usually given in the cultivation of a buffer, but if left unchecked will cover the soil surface. The stem is cylindrical, jointed, rarely woody.Winged bean tubers taste slightly sweet, ivory-white flesh, fibrous solid as an apple, but less pleasant smells. Tuber protein (10.9 g) was five times higher than potatoes, and sweet potato gadung.
Some of the benefits of winged bean tubers:
1. Not old tubers can be eaten after steamed / boiled / "dibubuy";
2. Chips can be made after boiling, thinly sliced and fried. Winged bean tubers can be eaten like a yam;
3. In the country of Myanmar, winged bean tubers are usually boiled until tender and eaten as a snack with vegetable oil and salt.
4. As the drug plus the sprue with rock sugar.
LeafCompound leaves with three leaflets triangular-shaped, 7.0 to 8.5 cm long, pinnate pertulangan, where the criss-cross, a green color.Winged bean leaves is said to be used as a cure sore eyes, earache, and ulcers. Leaves, especially those rich in dark green provitamin A. Protein (5,07,6 g) higher than cassava leaves (6.9 g), spinach (3.6 g), taro leaves (4.1 g) per 100 grams.
Interest
Single flower, butterfly type, grown from axillary leaves, petals are usually pale blue and has an advantage capable of self-pollinated.Such as squash and flowers turi flowers, winged flowers are also delicious eaten raw as a salad or fresh vegetable, boiled, or fried.Tastes good like a mushroom. The flowers can be processed into condiments, spices, candy, and natural dyes. Winged bean protein of interest (5.6 g) is greater than banana (1.6 g) and squash flower (1.3 g) per 100 grams.
Fruit pod type, elongated, rectangular-shaped with an angle beringgit, pod length between 5-35 cm, a width of about 2.5 cm, containing 5-20 seeds. Harvesting is done after a 80-120 day-old plants, when the pod was about 21 days after anthesis. Young pods, the plant is the most widely used as a vegetable, it can be eaten raw (as a salad), boiled, or mixed with other vegetables as a vegetable acid, vegetables lodeh, ointment, Karedok, pecel, gado-gado. Can also be processed by pan-fried or dioseng. In Bangladesh, young pods are fried and eaten with fish or meat.One hundred grams of young peas contain vitamin A (340-595 SI), iron (0.2 to 12.0 mg), vitamin C (21-37 mg), as well as other essential vitamins and minerals. For vegetables, young pods not only superior in nutrition, flavor also typical.
Table seed proximate composition (%-b of the edible part)
Seed
Winged bean seeds round with 8-10mm diameter, brown to black.Weight ranges from 0.06 to 0.40 grams. Old winged bean seeds best nutritional composition, although more widely used as a seed rather than food. Contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals is quite high compared to the young pods, tubers, and leaves.
Table seed proximate composition (%-b of the edible part)
Winged bean has a protein content and oil / fat which is very similar to soybeans. On a humid tropical environments soybean cultivated properly difficult. Therefore, the winged bean is cultivated in Indonesia is more potent than soy.
fatty acid content of winged bean
Fatty acid composition contained in the winged bean is as follows:
Behenat acidic winged bean was the fatty acid that is not absorbed by the intestine so it does not cause obesity when consumed by many humans.Winged bean plant utilization scheme as a whole can be seen in the following figure:
Utilization of Plant winged scheme
Sources:Dr. Tatang Herna S. Dictates of the Food Industry Lecture: winged bean. 2005
