The difference between green beans and beans

Can you tell all kinds of lentils, cowpeas, green beans and so on in the vegetable market, or do you call them beans vaguely? What are the differences between them? Now let's take a look at the differences between green beans, beans and lentils.

What are beans?

Beans are the general term for the fruits of various legumes, including beans, soybeans, cowpeas, etc., or especially cowpeas and kidney beans. It is a vegetable rich in summer. Contains a variety of vitamins and minerals. Tender pods are fleshy, fried, crisp and tender, and can also be hot and salted or pickled. The pods are long and tubular, crisp and soft, commonly seen in white beans and green beans.

What are green beans?

Kidney bean is another name for kidney bean. Kidney bean is a cultivated variety of bean family, also known as kidney bean, kidney lentil, bean and so on. It is an annual herb. It is called Qingming beans in Quzhou, Zhejiang, beans in northern China, string beans in Sichuan, and so on. It is one of the common vegetables on the table.

What is a lentil?

Lentils, also known as fire sickle lentils, rattan beans, along the hedge beans, magpie beans, beans, moon vegetables, dicotyledonous plants. There are also many kinds, such as white lentils, purple lentils, oil beans, snake beans, pig ear beans (shaped like pig ears). It is a perennial, twining vine of the genus Lentil of Leguminosae. It's a legume plant. It is cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, with red and white flowers and green, light green, pink or purplish red pods. The use of young pods as vegetable food, white flowers and white seeds as medicine is beneficial to the elimination of summer dampness and evil qi, invigorating the spleen and relieving diarrhea, while lentils have a significant role in regression of tumor.