How to Plant Winged Beans and Nutrients of Winged Beans
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Winged bean fruit is a pod type, elongated, rectangular with a ringed angle, long pod, displaying, rectangular between 5-35 cm, about 2.5 cm wide, containing 5-20 seeds. Harvesting is done after the plants are 80-120 days old, that is, when the pods are about 21 days from the time the flowers bloom. Young pods, which are the part of the plant that are mostly used as vegetable ingredients, can be eaten raw (as salad), boiled, or mixed with other vegetables as tamarind, vegetable lodeh, urap, karedok, pecel, gado-gado. It can also be processed by frying or stir frying. As a vegetable, young pods are not only superior in nutrition, they also have a distinctive taste.
Nutrient Content of Winged Beans
Some of the nutritional content of winged bean include:
Winged bean fruit is a high protein source
As a supermarket on the stalk, winged bean is a good source of protein. Protein content in flowers 2.8-5.6; leaves 5-7,6; young pods 1.9-4.3; fresh seeds 4.6-10.7; 29.8-39 dry seeds and 3-15 tubers, each calculated as grams per 100 grams of fresh weight. The high protein content in all parts of the winged bean plant may be related to the ability of the roots of this plant to fix nitrogen from the air. In addition to high protein, young shoots (young leaves) which are used as leaf vegetables also contain vitamin A of 20,000 international units per 100 gram portion. Seeing the high protein and vitamin A content, winged bean plantsvery suitable to be developed more seriously in developing countries such as Indonesia, to meet nutritional intake through food diversification, both ingredients and presentation.
Winged bean fruit is rich in essential minerals and vitamins
Winged bean seeds contain protein, oil/fat and amino acid composition very similar to soybeans. While winged bean oil is rich in tocopherol (vitamin E) which functions as an antioxidant. Winged bean oil is usually extracted from old winged bean seeds. Tocopherols can catalyze vitamin A in the body. Some other vitamins found in winged bean, are thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, and ascorbic acid. Besides, winged beanalso contains important minerals such as calcium, zinc, sodium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, and iron. Iron is important for the formation of blood hemoglobin. Pregnant and lactating women are advised to consume nuts such as winged bean, to prevent anemia due to iron deficiency. Winged bean also contains behenic acid, which is a fatty acid that is not absorbed by the intestines so it does not cause obesity when consumed in large quantities by humans.
Some other benefits of winged bean are to fertilize the soil because of its ability to fix nitrogen free from the air, as animal feed, cover crops and can be intercropped with forestry plants.
How to Plant Winged Beans
Planting Method. Until now, it seems that not many farmers are cultivating winged bean plants , even though this plant is relatively easy to cultivate. The most important requirement for its growth is that groundwater does not stagnate and the climate is dry, the degree of soil acidity (pH) is between 5.5 - 7.0. Winged bean plants can grow well in areas with an altitude above sea level between 50 - 1200 (DPL). winged beanwhich is generally planted on dry land or yard land, the method of planting, the soil is first processed and leveled and also given organic fertilizer at a dose of 50 kg for every 10 square meters, this is expected so that the soil structure becomes more loose and fertile so that it is good for cultivation. plant root growth.
Next, a bed with a width of 1.25 - 1.5 meters is made, a height of 30 cm and a length that is adjusted to the state of the soil. Then made small holes with a distance of 30-40 cm and a distance between rows of 60 cm. After that, each hole is planted with 2 winged bean seeds and thinly covered with soil, then the winged bean seeds will grow after 5 days from planting, when the plant has reached a height of 15 cm, it is given a lanjar and para-para of bamboo with a height of approximately 1 ,5 meters. Weeding should be done in the early stages of growth, this is to prevent the growth of weeds that interfere with plants, fertilizing using inorganic fertilizers containing N, P and K elements may use NPK fertilizer packages that are complete or by mixing their own fertilizers with Urea, TSP and KCl with a dose of 5 grams of planting holes.
The first fertilization is done at the time of planting and the second fertilization is done when the plant is 1 month old. Harvesting. Winged bean plants do not flower simultaneously, but gradually and continuously, thus the yield of young fruit to be picked can last for a relatively long period of time to stock up on fruit as vegetables or fresh vegetables. This rather long continuity will be very beneficial for the needs of farmers and other consumers. When the plant is 2.5 months old, the first fruit can be harvested to be used as vegetables, both for pecel, for clear vegetables, for roasting and as fresh vegetables. As for the old fruit, it is allowed to dry for the seeds to be taken for consumption purposes and for subsequent breeding purposes.
Pest Control An important pest that is always present and attacks throughout the year on this winged bean plant is the pod borer caterpillar which must be controlled by finding and destroying it so that it does not spread to other fruit. The disease that usually attacks is a type of fungus that attacks young pods, this happens especially if the climate is too humid. Yield potential The yield of winged bean plants that we usually pick is in the form of young fruit or young pods on average it can reach 2.0 - 3.0 kg per 10 square meters of yard land, or equivalent to 15 mounds when planted with the mound system, while when taken in the form of dry seeds it will yield approximately 1.5 - 2.0 kg of nutritional content. Some literature shows that winged bean fruit (especially the seeds) is a source of vegetable protein which contains lots of vitamin A, vitamin B, and vitamin C. Young winged winged leaves contain 5-10 percent protein and when dried can reach 25 percent.
From the results of research on the chemical composition, it turns out that the protein content of winged bean seeds is very high on average 33.5 percent, fat content is 17.5 percent. Winged bean seeds also contain lime, phosphorus, and iron, in 100 grams of winged bean seeds contain 205-375 milligrams of lime, 275-325 milligrams of phosphorus and 9.5 milligrams of iron. From the results of research on the chemical composition, it turns out that the protein content of winged bean seeds is very high on average 33.5 percent, fat content is 17.5 percent. Winged bean seeds also contain lime, phosphorus, and iron, in 100 grams of winged bean seeds contain 205-375 milligrams of lime, 275-325 milligrams of phosphorus and 9.5 milligrams of iron.
From the results of research on the chemical composition, it turns out that the protein content of winged bean seeds is very high on average 33.5 percent, fat content is 17.5 percent. Winged bean seeds also contain lime, phosphorus, and iron, in 100 grams of winged bean seeds contain 205-375 milligrams of lime, 275-325 milligrams of phosphorus and 9.5 milligrams of iron.
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