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White Kidney Beans

Today beans are a widely cultivated plants in temperate regions, and in semitropical regions. They may be consumed in various ways, marketed fresh, frozen or canned, cut or french-cut. Growned ripe beans, are variously called navy beans, white beans, northern beans, or pea beans, are widely preferred by the whole world. In some parts of the tropics leaves are used as a pot-herb, and the green-shelled beans are eaten. In Java, young leaves are eaten as a salad. After being harvested, straw is used for fodder. So the harness is unlimited, and recent studies have shown, that White Kidney beans also furnish a large portion of protein needs of the body.

It is highly nutritive:

raw pods of kidney beans contain (per 100 g edible portion): 150 calories,
60.4% moisture, 9.8 g protein, 0.3 g fat, 27.8 g total carbohydrate, 2.3 g
fiber, 1.7 g ash, 59 mg Ca, 213 mg P, 3.6 mg Fe, 10 mg vitamin A, 0.38 mg
thiamine, 0.12 mg riboflavin, 1.5 mg niacin, 7 mg ascorbic acid.

whole seeds cooked contain: 141 calories, 68.0% moisture, 5.9 g protein, 5.7
g fat, 17.9 g total carbohydrate, 1.1 g fiber, 2.5 g ash, 46 mg Ca, 120 mg
P, and 1.9 mg Fe.

raw leaves contain (per 100 g): 36 calories, 86.8% moisture, 3.6 g protein,
0.4 g fat, 6.6 g total carbohydrate, 2.8 g fiber, 2.6 g ash, 2 74 mg Ca, 75
mg P, 9.2 mg Fe, 3,230 mg b-carotene equivalent, 0.18 mg thiamine, 0.06 mg
riboflavin, 1.3 mg niacin and 110 mg ascorbic acid.