Adzuki beans - potentially a good food for people with Crohn's disease

[David]

Four common deficiencies in people with Crohn's disease are iron, magnesium, zinc, and folate. If you're able to tolerate them, you may want to look into adding Adzuki beans to your diet.

Azuki beans are a good source for a variety of minerals, with 1 cup of cooked beans providing 4.6 mg of Iron (~25% RDI[4]), 119.6 mg of magnesium (~30% RDI[5]), 1.223 g of potassium (~25 % AI[6]), 4.0 mg of zinc (~25% RDI[7]) and 278 µg of folic acid (~70% RDI[8]).

As always, get bulk, dried beans, NOT canned. Canned foods can become contaminated with the aluminum from the can and aluminum is implicated as potentially being involved in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease.

 

[nogutsnoglory]

I wonder how much nutrition is in the peel versus if I puree it.

 

[Orchid]

Any suggestions on ways to cook them?

 

[theOcean]

I know the website justbento has a lot of recipes with adzuki beans (red beans). I'll check around when I'm not on mobile and try and compile some websites.

 

[vonfunk]

They are used heavily in Chinese desserts. When they are sweetened they have a mild berry non-descript berry like flavour. They are excellent as an ice cream flavour or as a filling in cake, they are traditionally used in Moon Cakes served around the Chinese New Year.

 

[theOcean]

Japanese Rice Porridge (Congee) With Adzuki Beans
Savory Adzuki Bean Paste
Sweet Japanese Rice And Bean Cakes (Scroll!)
Japanese Strawberry Red Bean Dessert
Red Bean Pancake

Epicurious also lets you search by ingredient, and I know it turns up a lot of results if you search "red bean" or "azuki/adzuki".

 

[Orchid]

Thanks!