Lima beans are excellent source of molybdenum. It contains more than 300 percent molybdenum. One of molybdenum's main functions is to breakdown a certain type of amino acids.
This simple recipe of lima beans is ranked as Grade A food. Lima beans is so nutritious that it contains most of vitamins and minerals that body need to function.
This lima beans recipe contains very high amounts of vitamin C (more than 38 percent), thiamin, potassium, phosphorus and magnesium. It is a rich source of manganese. It contains 17 percent Iron.
Lima beans is high in dietary fiber.
One serving of this Lima Beans recipe (3.5oz / 100g) has 125g calories (22g calories from fat), 2.5g total fat (1.2g saturated fat), 4mg cholesterol, 267 sodium, 456mg potassium, and 19.7g total carbohydrates (4.8g dietary fiber, 1.4g sugar).
One serving of lima beans has 6.7g protein.