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Although the fruit is edible, the rest of the plant is poisonous. [14] The immature fruit can be eaten raw, cooked, or pickled. [6] Its fruit tastes like a sweet pea and they were eaten by the original inhabitants of the prairie, though the raw fruit has been described as "hardly appetizing". [6] [9] The cooked fruits taste like string beans. [9]
The Fabaceae (/ f ə ˈ b eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /) or Leguminosae, [6] commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and agriculturally important family of flowering plants. It includes trees, shrubs, and perennial or annual herbaceous plants, which are easily recognized by their fruit and their compound, stipulate leaves.
The word 'bean', for the Old World vegetable, existed in Old English, [3] long before the New World genus Phaseolus was known in Europe. With the Columbian exchange of domestic plants between Europe and the Americas, use of the word was extended to pod-borne seeds of Phaseolus, such as the common bean and the runner bean, and the related genus Vigna.
Broad beans, shelled and steamed Vicia faba beans around a US quarter Fried broad beans as a snack Raw mature broad beans are 11% water, 58% carbohydrates , 26% protein , and 2% fat . A 100-gram reference amount supplies 1,425 kJ (341 kcal; 341 Cal) of food energy and numerous essential nutrients in high content (20% or more of the Daily Value ...
Beans are the edible seeds from a legume plant — which means all beans are legumes but not all legumes are beans, Julia Zumpano, registered dietitian with the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for ...
The flowering time of the tree is between September and January. [9] The white calyx cup-shaped flowers are bisexual and have various yellowish-white stamens. [2] The fruit of the tree is a woody, glabrous, deep purple pod. Each Pod contains around three to nine round-shaped seeds. [7]
The court essentially ruled that tomatoes and beans, including green beans, are used in dinner recipes and therefore constitute a vegetable, while fruits are typically used as a dessert.
Some varieties develop a string along the pod; these are generally cultivated for dry beans, as green stringy beans are not commercially desirable. The beans are smooth, plump, kidney-shaped, up to 1.5 cm long, range widely in color and are often mottled in two or more colors. The beans maintain their germination capacity for up to 5 years.