[Sca-cooks] Beans, beans, the musical fruit....

[Sharon Gordon]

> I'm working on lesson plans for nutrition classes (various age ranges).
> I'm on the Beans segment just now, and have a list of beans to discuss:
> aduki, anasazi, black-eyed peas, black turtle, fava, garbanzo or
chickpeas,
> great northern, kidney, lentils, lima, mung, navy, pinto, red, soybean,
> split peas.

Some more:
Liana bean
https://www.vermontbean.com/vbsite/vbsiteviewproduct.aspx?ProductID=7022

Scarlet Runner (Hummingbirds like the flowers)
http://www.humeseeds.com/beansr.htm

Hyacinth bean
http://www.humeseeds.com/beanhy.htm

Lupines
http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Lupinus+perennis

Lotus bean
http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Nelumbo+nucifera

Winged bean (To me these look like they could be from some other planet.)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Psophocarpus+tetragonolobus

Mescal bean
http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Sophora+secundiflora

There is a bean from India that I can't think of the name of at the moment.

White acre pea
Can't find a photo, but it is a small white crowder pea type. Very tasty.

There's a large lima that's somewhere in size between a quarter and a fifty
cent piece.

If you'd like them to be able to see some beautiful pictures of bean seeds,
point them toward
http://www.vermontbean.com

Some I really like are:
Jacob's Cattle
https://www.vermontbean.com/vbsite/vbsiteviewproduct.aspx?ProductID=6724

Swedish Brown
https://www.vermontbean.com/vbsite/vbsiteviewproduct.aspx?ProductID=7011

Christmas Lima
http://www.beanbag.net/bc5.html

> This got me to thinking, maybe I could mention other foods that we know
> that we don't eat in the bean form necessarily, but are beans
nevertheless.



> So far I've come up with cocoa, coffee, carob and tamarind, but I will
> probably leave tamarind out.  What other bean products do we use that we
> don't see as a bean?  (I've got all the soybean products covered.)


>Hey, maybe I could talk about Castor beans and have them all sample Castor
Oil, would I be a popular teacher or what!?!

If you do, please talk about how very poisonous the bean is and perhaps
current ways various terror groups are trying to use it.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Ricinus+communis

>They are actually listed in the nut and seed section: flax, pumpkin,
sesame,
sunflower, almond, brazil nut, cashew, chestnut, hazelnut, macadamia,
peanut, pecan, pine nuts, walnut.
I will cover legume, drope, and other variations in definition.

Here are you focusing on nuts and seeds that are protein oriented?  Or would
you want to include things like mustard seed and corn (or would you put that
in your grain section?).

Sharon
gordonse at one.net