Legumes

They used to be eaten in the Navy - i.e. the armed forces. The name has nothing to do with the colour.

Well, that is a good question because some people say they are vegetables. Ya they are a "bean" but they grow on trees and most veggies grow from the ground... Plus, fruits are sweet and sometimes a bit bitter and so is chocolate. So, I'm going to agree with you that it is a gruit.

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A cocoa bean is the seed from within a fruit.

almost all the ones you need! a few are carbohydrates, minerals, and proteins. just need meats and some dairy then to make sure you get all the nutrients your body needs to function normally and healthily.

Beans are commonly considered to be vegetables, but actually are legumes and not vegetables.

Kidney beans are a type of bean, while chili bean refers to a recipe or way the beans are cooked. So chili beans can be made with several different types of beans. Commonly used are kidney, pinto and black beans.

legumes have a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen binding bacteria which live in nodules on the roots. if one grows legumes in a nitrogen poor envirument which includes pretty much all not fertilized land and instead of harvesting the leguems crop uses a rotor to plow them into the soil one gets a nitrogen enriched soil. nitrogen being the main element (by quantity) plants need from the soil this can be very beneficial and is often refered to as green fertilizer. bear in mind that in a nitrogen rich envirument this symbiotic relationship will not develop i.e it is a facultative symbiosis and not an obligatory one.

Before washing dried beans, spread them on a plate or cooking surface to check for small stones, debris, or damaged beans. Then, place the beans in a strainer, and rinse them thoroughly under cool running water.

Note that most of the phosphorus in beans is in a storage form of phosphate called phytic acid or phytate. Seeds are how most plants reproduce. When they are eaten by animals, it is beneficial to the survival of their species if they can pass through the animal's digestive system intact to be deposited, encased in fertilizer, elsewhere. In order for the plant to reproduce, it's necessary that the seed pass through the digestive tract whole (undigested). Many plant seeds have developed defense mechanisms to make them more difficult to digest, including enzyme inhibitors that can interfere with digestion and other natural substances that block nutrient absorption. Phytic acid prevents premature germination and stores nutrients for plant growth. Unfortunately, it also reduces the absorption of the important minerals calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc, and reduces the digestibility of protein. This applies not only to the minerals and protein in the food containing the phytic acid, but also the food that you eat with it. Over time, these phytates can lead to mineral deficiencies, allergies, and irritation of the intestinal tract. Only about 50% of the phosphorus from phytate is available to humans because we lack phytase, the enzyme that liberates phosphorus from phytate.

Traditionally, humans soaked, sprouted, or fermented beans before eating them, processes that neutralizes phytates and enzyme inhibitors so that all the nutrients are more available.

When a plant seed undergoes germination, changes occur that provide the growing plant with needed nutrients. These changes include the breakdown of phytic acid, the inactivation of protease inhibitors, and the increased availability of vitamins and minerals, all of which increase the nutritional value of the seed and improve its digestibility. In nature, germination typically occurs when a plant seed encounters conditions that are favorable for growth, and that typically involves water. You can easily initiate the germination of kidney beans by soaking them in 2-3 cups of water per cup of beans. Soaking reduces phytic acid in about 12 hours. Soaking can also increase the content of some vitamins and help break down complex carbohydrates such as raffinose-type oligosaccharides (sugars associated with causing flatulence). Cooking also deactivates natural plant toxins that may still exist after soaking.

To prevent beans from absorbing chemicals from the water or container that they're soaking in, consider using a glass or ceramic container and filtered water. It may also be beneficial to use lukewarm water and increase its acidity with a tablespoon or two of lemon juice or vinegar. Soak beans for 12 to 24 hours in water with 1-2 tablespoons of vinegar or lemon juice. Rinse well and cook as usual in 2-3 cups of fresh water per cup of dried beans.

Soaking seeds is easy; it just takes takes a little discipline. In the evening, put your beans in a bowl and cover them with filtered water. By the next day, the beans are ready to cook.

You can cook beans either on the stove top or in a pressure cooker or slow cooker. For the stove top method, add three cups of fresh water for each cup of dried beans. The liquid should be about one to two inches above the top of the beans. Bring the beans to a boil, then reduce to a simmer, partially covering the pot. If any foam develops, simply skim it off during the simmering process. Beans generally take about one to one and one-half hours to become tender using this method.

You can also cook beans in a pressure cooker, where soaked beans take about 10-12 minutes to prepare, or in a slow cooker, where they take about six to nine hours on high. Note that all beans, but especially red kidney beans, contain a toxic agent called Phytohaemagglutinin, but this toxin is generally destroyed after 10 minutes of boiling.

Regardless of cooking method, do not add any salt or acid (like tomatoes) until after beans have been cooked; adding them earlier will make the beans tough and greatly increase the cooking time. To aid in digestion, you can add to your cooking beans a four-inch strip of the sea vegetable kombu, available dried in the Asian specialty section of grocery stores. Also try adding a teaspoon of epazote per pound of beans. Epazote is a traditional herb of central America that is believed to help with digestion.

Beans are suitable for any number of uses: salads, soups, stews, ragouts, purees, and so forth. Season them with bay leaf, cumin, fennel, oregano, parsley, sage, savory, or thyme.

peas A: Any seeds that grow in a pod, like beans, lentils, peanuts.

a lentil is a smal round pea but not perfectly round, it is flattened. and usually brown sometimes yellow. they are about the same size as a green pea. lentils cook quickly not like other dried beans that take 3 to 4 hours. lentils are good for soup. i use them to make a veggie sloppy joe. just cook the lentils and when tender drain water and add sloppy joe sauce.

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the main nutrients in baked beans is vitamin b

yes it is.

this means that they have already been cooked, and only need to be heated, in order to eat them. nothing is raw anymore.

Plan for 4 ounces per person. That would be 240 ounces which is 14 to 15 pounds.

That depends on what type of bean!

With green beans you can cook green bean casserole, garlic beans, etc.

With baked beans you can make meaty beans. Chili has beans in it!

Hey, just be creative!

There are hundreds and hundreds of different beans in the world. Most of the existing beans, like lima, black, and baked beans are perfectly fine to eat and healthy for you. Some other beans are poisonous, however. Many commonly eaten dried beans can be poisonous when uncooked. The cooking process destroys the toxins.

I believe that you are in fact talking about green beans

About 1 gram

Cocoa beans and coffee beans are two totally different products. They are used to make two very different foods (chocolate and coffee), look different, are grown / harvested diffeernt, taste, and smell different.

As others have noted, Hunt's Chili Beans were manufactured by ConAgra of Texas. Recently, that company discontinued Hunt's Chili Beans, to the disappointment of millions of formerly happy Hunts Chili Beans eaters. After much field study, my family settled on Sun Vista Brand Chili Beans as a near equal to Hunt's. Sun Vista canned products are found in most supermarkets in So. California and are certainly worth looking for in Tuscon, where many other good things can be found.

The peanut belongs in the protein food category, in the food pyramid, as do all nuts, meats, and dairy products.

Scarlet runner beans are from the American continent and are grown by the native people here.

Special class of bacteria called Rhizomes live on the roots of leguminus plants. They take free nitrate and nitrites from the environment and change to a form that can be readily used by plants. Relationship between nitrogen fixing bacteria and plants is called Symbiosis.

Ground nuts are legumes. Groundnut being a legume crop utilizes the nitrogen in the atmosphere by nitrogen fixation in association with a group of bacteria belonging to Rhizobium family.

The Rhizobium bacteria penetrate the roots of legumes and form root nodules .