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Phaseolus vulgaris, the common bean, [3] is a herbaceous annual plant grown worldwide for its edible dry seeds or green, unripe pods. Its leaf is also occasionally used as a vegetable and the straw as fodder. Its botanical classification, along with other Phaseolus species, is as a member of the legume family, Fabaceae.
Kidney beans, cooked by boiling, are 67% water, 23% carbohydrates, 9% protein, and contain negligible fat.In a 100-gram reference amount, cooked kidney beans provide 532 kJ (127 kcal) of food energy, and are a rich source (20% or more of the Daily Value, DV) of protein, folate (33% DV), iron (22% DV), and phosphorus (20% DV), with moderate amounts (10–19% DV) of thiamine, copper, magnesium ...
The generic name Phaseolus was introduced by Linnaeus in 1753, [7] from the Latin phaseolus, a diminutive of phasēlus, in turn borrowed from Greek φάσηλος / phasēlos of unknown origin. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Ancient Greeks probably referred to any bean in a pod as phasēlos , [ 10 ] which at the time, in Europe, were only of Asian origin.
A pile of raw green beans. Green beans are young, unripe fruits of various cultivars of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), [1] [2] although immature or young pods of the runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus), yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis), and hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus) are used in a similar way. [3]
The black turtle bean is a small, shiny variety of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) especially popular in Latin American cuisine, though it can also be found in the Cajun and Creole cuisines of south Louisiana. Like all varieties of the common bean, it is native to the Americas, [4] but has been introduced around the world.
The pinto bean (/ ˈ p ɪ n t oʊ /) is a variety of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).In Spanish they are called frijoles pintos.It is the most popular bean by crop production in Northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States, [3] [4] and is most often eaten whole (sometimes in broth), or mashed and then refried.
There have been other assertions that it is a form of lablab but horticultural consensus places it simply as a variety of Phaseolus vulgaris, [3] closely related to French beans and haricot beans. In the US, pea bean or white pea beans is also used to describe small white common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris).
This article is a list of diseases of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Bacterial diseases. Bacterial diseases; Bacterial brown spot Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae: