Create allergy card
← Browse ingredients

Mung Bean

Mung beans are small legumes used in sprouts, porridges, desserts, and savory dishes.

Mung Bean — illustrative ingredient image

About Mung Bean

Mung bean is the small, usually green seed of a legume used whole, split, hulled, or ground. It is cooked in porridges, soups, curries, and other savory dishes, and is also processed into sprouts, flour, pastes, and starch-based foods.

The flavour is mild, earthy, and faintly sweet. Whole beans have a smooth skin and a small oval shape, while split or hulled beans cook into a softer, creamier texture. Green-skinned and hulled yellow forms can therefore behave differently in cooking.

Mung beans are sold as whole green seeds, split or hulled beans, flour, pastes, sprouts, and starch-based products. Cooking softens the beans, with split or hulled forms becoming creamier; grinding or processing changes them into flour, paste, or other foods.

Ingredient type
whole food

Forms & related ingredients

FOLLOW IT TO THE PLATE

Where will you meet it?

Explore the dishes that use this ingredient and their country and cuisine connections.

Explore linked dishes

ON A MENU OR LABEL

Find local names and written forms to help recognise this ingredient.

See local names

Where mung bean appears

31 linked foods

Find foods to recognise by country and type. Recipes and products vary; these are recorded ingredient connections.

Showing 1–12 of 31

Main dishes

Sides

Snacks

Desserts

Ingredient connections awaiting review · Coverage is still growing, including packaged snacks.

Name examples awaiting language review. Confirm the specific food or product.

Local names for mung bean

Names and romanised forms to recognise on menus and labels.

English

Mung Bean

English

Bean, mung, whole, dried, uncooked

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

English

Haricot mungo, frais, bouilli/cuit à l'eau

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

English

Haricot mungo, sec

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

English

mung bean (dried)

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

English

mung bean (mature)

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

English

mung bean (raw, mature)

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

English

mung bean (raw, sprouted)

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

English

mung bean (raw)

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

English

mung bean powder

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

English

mung bean protein

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

English

mung bean protein isolate

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

English

Mung beans, cooked

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

English

obsolete: mung bean (whole, raw)

Search alias · Not a confirmed translation

Available names only. Languages may be spoken in other countries; a name alone does not identify every ingredient in a dish.

Mung Bean nutrition & diet

Mung Bean nutritional value

Mung beans, mature seeds, raw

Per 100 g of the edible portion in the recorded food form.

Calories
347kcal
Protein
23.9g
Carbs
62.6g
Fat
1.1g

Reference values for the specific food form shown. Other varieties, brands and preparations can differ.

Portions & preparation

Use the whole mature mung bean identity and record whether it is dry, soaked, boiled, roasted, milled, or sprouted. Portion interpretation changes after hydration and cooking. Separate plain beans from dishes containing oil, salt, spices, sweeteners, vegetables, cereals, or animal ingredients.

Compare the right form: Match references to mature whole mung beans in the same dry, soaked, boiled, roasted, or milled form, not sprouts or split dal.

Diet considerations

Mung beans are plant-derived legumes. Compatibility changes when prepared with ghee, meat, dairy, eggs, sweeteners, wheat, rice, or packaged seasonings. Plain beans and mixed dishes have different portion-dependent carbohydrate patterns; sprouts, split mung, flour, and starch are separate catalogue forms.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Typically compatible
  • Vegetarian
    Typically compatible
  • Pescatarian
    Typically compatible
  • Keto
    Depends on the version
  • Paleo
    Typically incompatible
  • Low-carb
    Depends on the version
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Typically compatible
The plain ingredient profile is plant, fungal or mineral based. Added ingredients in a prepared product need a separate check.
Vegetarian · Typically compatible
The plain ingredient profile is plant, fungal or mineral based. Added ingredients in a prepared product need a separate check.
Pescatarian · Typically compatible
The plain ingredient profile is plant, fungal or mineral based. Added ingredients in a prepared product need a separate check.
Keto · Depends on the version
Compatibility depends on the portion and preparation. A sourced carbohydrate amount for a defined serving is not available.
Paleo · Typically incompatible
This profile falls outside the conventional paleo pattern used here (grains and pseudograins, legumes, dairy or refined sugar).
Low-carb · Depends on the version
Compatibility depends on the portion and preparation. A sourced carbohydrate amount for a defined serving is not available.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

Reviewed ingredient entryIngredient reference · Preparations vary

AI-generated illustration for visual context. It does not identify a particular product or establish allergen content.

Sources & review

Nutrition reference: USDA FoodData Central — Mung beans, mature seeds, raw ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

Last recorded verification: .