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Vicia faba – fava bean, broad bean, faba bean, horse bean, field bean, bell bean, tic bean; Vicia galeata Boiss. Vicia galilaea Plitmann & Zohary; Vicia gigantea Bunge; Vicia graminea Sm. Vicia grandiflora Scop. (=V. kitaibeliana) Vicia hassei S.Watson; Vicia hirsuta – hairy tare; Vicia hololasia Woronow; Vicia hulensis Plitmann; Vicia ...
Vicia faba, commonly known as the broad bean, fava bean, or faba bean, is a species of vetch, a flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae. It is widely cultivated as a crop for human consumption, and also as a cover crop .
Fava may refer to: Vicia faba, a leguminous plant whose beans are also known as broad beans or fava beans. Fava (Greek dish), a puree made of split peas. Fava (Turkish dish), a puree made of fava beans.
Fava beans also have nutritional advantages, according to Newton, as they are higher in protein and lower in fat compared to cocoa powder, and because of their ability to fix nitrogen in the soil ...
Fava beans (here fresh and in the pod, rather than dried) are a primary ingredient of maccu. Fresh fava beans, shelled and steamed. Maccu (also known as maccu di fave [1] and sometimes referred to as macco [2]) is a Sicilian soup and also a foodstuff that is prepared with dried and crushed fava beans (also known as broad beans) and fennel as primary ingredients.
Shell, shelled, or shelling beans are beans removed from their pods before being cooked or dried. Common beans can be used as shell beans, but the term also refers to other species of beans whose pods are not typically eaten, such as lima beans, soybeans, peas, and fava beans. Fresh shell beans are nutritionally similar to dry beans but are ...
Beans, peas, and bean pod with holes drilled by Bruchus rufimanus. Bruchus rufimanus, commonly known as the broadbean weevil, broadbean beetle, or broadbean seed beetle is a leaf beetle which inhabits crops and fields, as well as some homes. It is a pest of faba beans (Vicia faba L.).
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.