Green bean

Green beans are the immature pods of any kind of bean when eaten immature as a vegetable.

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Beans commonly eaten in this way include the yardlong bean, the hyacinth bean, the pea, the winged bean and especially the common bean, whose pods are also called string or snap beans. Varieties have been bred especially for the fleshiness, flavor or sweetness of their pods.

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Green beans are of nearly universal distribution. They are marketed canned, frozen and fresh.

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Bean: :This article is on the plant. For alternate meanings, see Bean (disambiguation)...

Vegetable: Vegetable is a nutritional and culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary grain, fruit, nut, herb, or spice....

Yardlong bean: The yardlong bean, also known as the long-podded cowpea, asparagus bean, or Chinese long bean, is an annual vine, a variety of the cowpea, grown primarily for its strikingly long (35-75 cm) immature pods, used as a green bean....

Green bean related Images and Photos (experimental)

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