Legume
Paste
Mung bean paste is cooked, mashed mung—sweetened as a red-bean-style filling in some East Asian pastries (often with sugar and oil) or left savoury as a dal-like mash. Texture ranges from rustic to sieved smooth. Colour is yellow to olive depending on hulls and cooking. Sweet pastes fill mooncakes, buns, and sesame balls; savoury pastes thicken soups. Refrigerate homemade paste and use within days, or freeze.
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Nutrition
Typical values per 100 g edible portion. Nutrient names open the reference page.
Nutrition Facts
Per 100 g edible portion
Amount per 100 g
- Total Fat 0.84 g
- Saturated Fat 0.2 g
- Trans Fat 0 g
- Monounsaturated Fat 0.2 g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 0.29 g
- Cholesterol 0 mg
- Sodium 10.3 mg
- Salt 0.02 g
- Total Carbohydrate 20.5 g
- Dietary Fibre 6.31 g
- Total Sugars 1.97 g
- Complex / starch 12 g
- Protein 9.39 g
- Water 65 g
- Energy 121 kcal
- Water 65 g
- Carbohydrates 20.5 g
- Protein 9.39 g
- Fat 0.84 g
- Saturated Fat 0.2 g
- Monounsaturated Fat 0.2 g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 0.29 g
- Omega-3 0.03 g
- Vitamins 172 mg
- Vitamin A 15 µg
- Vitamin B1 — Thiamine 0.21 mg
- Vitamin B2 — Riboflavin 0.08 mg
- Vitamin B3 — Niacin 1.23 mg
- Vitamin B5 — Pantothenic Acid 0.59 mg
- Vitamin B6 0.23 mg
- Vitamin B7 — Biotin 5.8 µg
- Vitamin B9 — Folate 137 µg
- Vitamin C 2 mg
- Vitamin E 0.56 mg
- Vitamin K 8.9 µg
- Minerals 294 mg
- Major Minerals 292 mg
- Trace Minerals 1.5 mg
- Iron 1.5 mg
- Salt 0.02 g
Vitamins
vitamin-c: 2 · vitamin-a: 15 · vitamin-b1-thiamine: 0.21 · vitamin-b2-riboflavin: 0.08 · vitamin-b3-niacin: 1.23 · vitamin-b5-pantothenic-acid: 0.59 · vitamin-b6: 0.23 · vitamin-b7-biotin: 5.8 · vitamin-b9-folate: 137.2 · vitamin-e: 0.56 · vitamin-k: 8.9 ·
Minerals
Paste of Mung Bean: composition reflects this culinary part relative to the whole ingredient.
History
Sweet mung pastes filled festival pastries in Chinese cookery.
Commercial sweet bean pastes included mung versions beside adzuki.