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unusual facts about Common bean



Refried beans

In northern Mexico and in American Tex-Mex cuisine, refried beans are usually prepared with pinto beans, but many other varieties of bean are used in other parts of Mexico, such as black or red beans.


see also

Black bean

Black turtle bean, a variety of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) typically used in Latin American cuisine

Green bean

Green beans, also known as string bean, snap bean in the northeastern and western United States, or ejotes in Mexico, are the unripe fruit of various cultivars of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).