Nutrition for Everyone: Legumes

Legumes: what they are and how you eat Legumes are foods of plant origin (family Fabaceae); more precisely, it is enclosed in a seed pod, but it is neither grain nor berries or other vegetables. The best known are legumes: beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils, soybeans, lupins, peanuts, grass pea and carob. Legumes are marketed under various forms of conservation; fresh ones can be found easily on the shelves of fruit and vegetables during the proper season. There are also vegetables preserved in cans or stored at room temperature after drying; latter method allows not to use large quantities of...

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