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Cultured Green Trading French Beans
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• French Beans
• French beans, known as bakla are one of the common ingredients of fried rice and pulav.
• Usually available during the monsoons, this unripe green vegetable not only tastes good but is also very nutritious.
• French beans are very low in calories and so individuals who want to lose weight or are calorie-conscious can consume these in good amounts.
• Zea-xanthin is an important dietary carotenoid found in French beans, which protects the eyes due to their powerful antioxidant activity and filtering the harmful UV radiation.
• French beans are rich in folates, that when consumed during pregnancy, prevent the foetus from neural-tube defects.
• The presence of high amounts of dietary fiber in these beans reduces high cholesterol levels in the body by decreasing the re-absorption of cholesterol binding bile acids in the colon.
