Green beans // vegetable (botanically a fruit)
🌱🤔 Did you know the entire pod of green beans is edible (even the little tail at the end)? The tail is usually removed before eating because it doesn’t soften when cooked but can be composted fine. Adding green beans to your meals provides a wide range of health benefits and adds flavors and textures. Luckily, there are different types of edible beans worldwide from which you can choose locally. Win-win!
☀️ Homegrown green beans are one of the classic dishes at Grandma Sita’s summer holiday table. They are a versatile vegetable with an earthy yet sweet taste. Although often considered a vegetable, beans are botanically classified as a fruit, as they grow from a flowering plant and contain seeds.
💪 Green beans are composed of about 90% water low in calories and fat, making them a healthy addition to recipes. The antioxidant power of green beans is enhanced when beans are cooked, whether sautéed, steamed, or roasted but lose nutrients with cooking boiled or cooked under pressure.
👵💚 Grandma Sita’s tips:
*It’s best to store your fresh green beans unwashed and unblanched in the fridge for up to about seven days. If they brown or turn slimy, they’ve gone bad.
*Store green beans in the freezer if you want them to last longer, blanch them before freezing to preserve their quality.
📗 Green beans, also known as string beans or snap beans, are immature kidney beans harvested young before their pods become too fibrous to eat. Green beans belong to the plant family, Fabaceae, also known as the legume, pea, or bean family, which includes lentils, chickpeas, peas, and peanuts.
🌎 Beans are one of the planet’s most sustainable protein sources. Beans use dramatically less water, land, and petroleum than livestock. hashtagBeans is How” is a campaign to double global bean consumption by 2028. “We can help fix the future with beans”. +info 👉https://beansishow.org/