French bean | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 12/12/2018

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French bean


00:01:12 1 Culinary use and nutrition
00:02:05 2 Characteristics
00:02:30 2.1 Plant
00:03:48 2.2 Varieties
00:04:31 2.2.1 Bush (dwarf) types
00:04:52 2.2.2 Pole (climbing) types
00:05:14 3 Production



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SUMMARY
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Green beans are the unripe, young fruit and protective pods of various cultivars of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Immature or young pods of the runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus), yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis), and hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus) are used in a similar way. Green beans are known by many common names, including French beans, string beans (for old varieties; modern varieties are stringless), snap beans, snaps, and the French name French: haricots vert.
They are distinguished from the many other varieties of beans in that green beans are harvested and consumed with their enclosing pods, before the bean seeds inside have fully matured. An analogous practice is the harvest and consumption of unripened pea pods, as is done with snow peas or sugar snap peas.
Historically, green bean pods contained a string, a hard fibrous strand running the length of one side of the pod. This string was either removed before cooking, or made swallowable by cutting the pod into short segments.  Modern, commercially grown green bean varieties are stringless and lack strings, though heirloom varieties may retain this trait.