Split fava beans are a popular legume that has high quality. Split fava beans are nutty- flavored broad beans which have bean dried, skinned and cracked.

Split fava beans are same as fava bean or broad bean which the color of it become yellow after frying. Fava beans are one of the oldest domesticate food legumes.

This product can be stored in cabinets or any other cool places or it can even be stored in the freezer.

If you use the peeled split fava beans are an enormous time save, as you don’t need to peel the beans before cooking.

Split fava beans are the main ingredient in falafel and Egyptian fried fava bean patties, and other foreign and Iranian foods.

Some people don’t eat this product due to bloating. But this problem is solved by soaking it in water for 24 hours and then using Turkish split fava bean. To soak it, you should soak it in large pot or bowl, combine the split fava beans with water at a ratio of 10 cups of water per pond of split fava beans.

Properties of Turkish split fava bean:

Treatment of rheumatism

Treatment gout

source of folic acid

help lower blood pressure

help lower blood cholesterol

reduction of cardiovascular diseases

improve gastrointestinal health

prevention of constipation

aid weigh loss

improve iron deficiency and anemia

reduce the risk of intestinal diseases

prevent forming plaque in blood vessel

useful for diabetic patients

help to reduce prostate inflammation

help reduce sciatica

useful for intelligence and memory

the properties and benefits of Turkish split fava bean were mentioned above, now here we will talk about dangers and disadvantages of split fava beans.

Fava beans are also cause of a potentially genetic disease called favism, which is a dangerous type of anemia caused by exposure or smell to fava beans. And when people eat fava beans a lot, they develop a condition called hemolytic anemia. This anemia causes red blood cells to break apart and block blood vessels. 

Split fava bean cause bloat, but there is a solution to this problem, that just soak it in water for 24 hours.

Note: there are two major types of fava beans in Iran, one of them ordinary bean that will be consumed raw or cooked. And other is Gilan fava bean.

Gilan fava bean is smaller and softer, but it cannot be eaten as raw fava beans. This type of fava bean should be cooked and then eat it. It also is main ingredients in “baqala qatuq” that is local food in south of Iran.

Turkish fava bean is an imported product that is similar to Iranian ordinary and yellow fava beans.

The remarkable point about nutritional value of fava beans is that the nutritional value of dried fava beans is higher than fresh fava beans, but vitamin C in fresh fava beans is more than others.

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