In the past the dish was so ubiquitous that English-speaking visitors, purporting to believe that the people of Jersey ate nothing else, dubbed the inhabitants Jersey beans ( this epithet is sometimes considered derogatory, but a Jersey primary school French coursebook Salut Jersey featured two beans Haricot and Mangetout ).

* Haricot bean e. g. Alubia pinta alavesa

Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.

Words primarily used in Austria are Jänner ( January ) rather than Januar, heuer ( this year ) rather than dieses Jahr, Stiege ( stairs ) instead of Treppe, Rauchfang ( chimney ) instead of Schornstein, many administrative, legal and political terms – and a whole series of foods and vegetables such as: Erdäpfel ( potatoes ) German Kartoffeln ( but Dutch Aardappel ), Schlagobers ( whipped cream ) German Schlagsahne, Faschiertes ( ground beef ) German Hackfleisch, Fisolen ( green beans ) German Gartenbohne ( but Czech fazole and Italian fagioli ), Karfiol ( cauliflower ) German Blumenkohl ( but Italian cavolfiore ), Kohlsprossen ( Brussels sprouts ) German Rosenkohl, Marillen ( apricots ) German Aprikosen but Slovak marhuľa, Paradeiser ( tomatoes ) German Tomaten, Palatschinken ( pancakes ) German Pfannkuchen ( but Czech palačinky ), Topfen ( a semi-sweet cottage cheese ) German Quark and Kren ( horseradish ) German Meerrettich ( but Czech křen ).

Maize ( corn ), beans, rice, peanuts, cashews, pineapples, cassava, yams, and other various tubers are grown for local subsistence.

Leguminous crops harvested green for food, such as snap peas, snow peas, and so on, are not considered beans, and are classified as vegetable crops.

In English usage, the word bean is also sometimes used to refer to the seeds or pods of plants that are not in the family leguminosae, but which bear a superficial resemblance to true beans — for example coffee beans, castor beans and cocoa beans ( which resemble bean seeds ), and vanilla beans, which superficially resemble bean pods.

Unlike the closely related pea, beans are a summer crop that needs warm temperatures to grow.

They would be provided slight shelter from the sun by the corn, and would deter many animals from attacking the corn and beans because their coarse, hairy vines and broad, stiff leaves are difficult or uncomfortable for animals such as deer and raccoons to walk through, crows to land on, etc.

In many cuisines beans are cooked along with natural carminatives such as anise seeds, coriander seeds and cumin.

Sometimes vinegar is added, but only after the beans are cooked as vinegar interferes with the beans ' softening.

For example kidney beans are toxic when raw or improperly cooked, due to the presence of phytohaemagglutinin which can be inactivated after cooking for at least ten minutes at 100 ° C.

Instead, vegetables such as beans or fruits are used.

Ingredients which are common in most islands ' dishes are rice, plantains, beans, cassava, cilantro, bell peppers, chick peas, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, coconut, and any of various meats that are locally available ( beef, poultry, pork or fish ) as well as curries.

After fermentation, the beans are dried, then cleaned, and then roasted, and the shell is removed to produce cacao nibs.

Major agricultural products are barley, beans and lentils, dairy products, meat, millet, skins, sorghum, teff, and wheat.

These culinary vegetables that are botanically fruit include cucurbits ( e. g., squash, pumpkin, and cucumber ), tomatoes, peas, beans, corn, eggplant, and sweet pepper.

The dish called cassoulet has its roots in the New World discovery of haricot beans, which are central to the dish's creation, but had not existed outside of the New World until its exploration by Christopher Columbus.

There is also production of textiles, palm products, and cocoa beans.

Broad beans, also called fava beans, in their wild state the size of a small fingernail, were gathered in Afghanistan and the Himalayan foothills.

Many edible beans, including broad beans and soybeans, contain oligosaccharides ( particularly raffinose and stachyose ), a type of sugar molecule also found in cabbage.

Another method specified by Chinese texts — the earliest dating to 1110 — specified the use of saponin ( from the beans of Gleditschia sinensis ) to extract hormones, but gypsum ( containing calcium sulfate ) was also known to have been used.

Ketchup is the main product produced there, but the factory also produces Canada Fancy ( Grade A ) tomato juice, mustard, vinegar, baby food, BBQ sauces, canned pastas, beans, pasta sauces, gravies and soups.

Later, gourds, watermelons, castor beans, and cotton were also collected and domesticated.

Soybeans may also be one of the beans in kongbap, which boil together with several types of beans and other grains, and they are also the primary ingredient in the production of fermented condiments collectively referred to as jang, such as soybean pastes, doenjang and cheonggukjang, a soy sauce called ganjang, chili pepper paste or gochujang and others.

The worker also transfers the value of constant capital — the value of the beans ; some specific depreciated value of the roaster and the brewer ; and the value of the cup — to the value of the final cup of coffee.

It is also used as sweetener for granola, applesauce, baked beans, candied sweet potatoes, winter squash, cakes, pies, breads, tea, coffee, and hot toddies.

The drink, called xocoatl, was often flavored with vanilla, chili pepper, and achiote Chocolate was also an important luxury good throughout pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and cacao beans were often used as currency.

Angelo Pellegrini, however, argued that the base of minestrone is bean broth, and that Roman beans ( also called Borlotti beans ) " are the beans to use for genuine minestrone ".

Liver, fava beans, and wine all contain a substance called tyramine, which can cause a lethal interaction if you're also taking an MAO inhibitor.

Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples: common beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( Phaseolus lunatus ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( Phaseolus acutifolius ), scarlet runner beans ( Phaseolus coccineus ) and polyanthus beans ( Phaseolus polyanthus ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation:

Coffee is mainly grown around the Blue Mountains and in hilly areas, where one type, Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, is considered among the best in the world because at those heights in the Blue Mountains, the cooler climate causes the berries to take longer to ripen and the beans develop more of the substances which on roasting give coffee its flavor.

Made with premium Arabica coffee beans grown in Veracruz, Mexico, Kahlúa Especial has an alcohol content of 36 % and has a lower viscosity and is less sweet than the regular version.

In the southwest, they grew beans that were self-supported, much like the way they are grown today.

Crops grown include winter wheat, winter barley, sugar beet, oilseed rape, winter and spring beans and linseed, although smaller areas of rye and oats can be found in lighter areas along with a variety of vegetables.

Normally, beets are grown in the same ground every third year, peas, beans or grain being raised the other two years.

In the southwest, sunflowers were also grown along with beans as a trellis for them, or just to the north of the Three Sisters, to draw away aphids.

The primary cash crop in the EAA is sugarcane, though sod, beans, lettuce, celery, and rice are also grown.

Large portions of the cash crops grown in the area, rice, soy beans and cotton are sent through the Mississippi River transportation industry to distribution points along the Mississippi delta region.

Xalapa is one of the most important places for Coffee production in Mexico due to its ideal climate, and coffee beans are grown on both smallholdings and large estates in the surrounding mountains.

The economy of Toledo relies heavily upon agriculture: crops grown include beans and corn, as well as rice which is sold to the Big Falls Rice Mill.

A rich plethora of vegetable and fruit varieties are grown, including cucumbers, gourds, cabbage, snakebeans, winged beans, yams, water spinach, mangoes, pomelos, papayas, and sugarcane.

In the cornfields, multiple crops were grown such as beans ( using cornstalks as supports ), squash, pumpkins and chilli peppers, in some cultures tended mainly or exclusively by women.

Among the crops grown on chinampas were maize, beans, squash, amaranth, tomatoes, chili peppers, and flowers.

In the kitchen gardens, fennel, cabbage, onion, garlic, leeks, radishes, and parsnips might be grown, as well as peas, lentils and beans if space allowed for them.

Principle crops grown in the municipality are corn, peanuts, luffa sponges, beans and tomatillos.

The main source of income is agriculture, particularly sugar cane cultivation, but rice, corn, beans, pineapples, sorghum, and mangoes are also grown here.

Crops typically grown in the area were beans, corn, marsh hay, squash, potato bean and tobacco.