Rose-flavored Mung Bean Cake

Rose-flavored Mung Bean Cake

　　Best-selling in summer. The most famous version is produced by Xi’an Demaogong Food Store. In recent years, popular products also come from stores such as Xi’an Restaurant. The mung bean has a unique delicate fragrance and excellent eating quality, and it is named for the sugar rose in the filling. Eating zongzi, mung bean cake, and hanging mugwort leaves during the Dragon Boat Festival is one of China’s folk customs, making this a seasonal delicacy.

　　Features: Moist texture, neat appearance, sweet and soft on the palate, with the fragrant aroma of mung beans and roses. Its lysine content is higher than that of rice or millet, and the mung bean skin has antibacterial effects against staphylococcus. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mung beans taste sweet and are cool in nature, offering benefits such as clearing heat and toxins, promoting urination and reducing swelling, and quenching thirst to relieve summer heat.