Widely used in traditional medicine in Asia and recently introduced in Burkina Faso under the name Beng-tigr´e, mung bean is a
legume consumed throughout the world and more so in India. e objective of this study was to evaluate the cytotoxicity of the
mung bean grown and consumed in Burkina Faso and to study its biological properties such as anti-inammatory and anticancer
activity of the natural and sprouted seeds. e cytotoxicity of the extracts was tested on Artemia salina larvae, and the antiinammatory activity was evaluated in vitro by albumin denaturation method using diclofenac as reference molecule. e
anticancer activity of hydro-ethanol extracts was evaluated on rats made cancerous with 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH) using 5-
uorouracil as reference molecule. e results showed that the highest yield of the plant extraction was observed with the hydroethanol solvent, both for the natural form of mung bean (MBN) and for its sprouted form (MBG). e cytotoxicity test showed no
toxicity of the extracts toward shrimp larvae. e ethanolic extract of germinated mung bean seeds gave the highest anti-in-
ammatory activity at 95.13 ± 0.22% inhibition with signicant dierence (p