Beans
See also: Category:Edible legumes, Seed cake
Beans, also known as legumes or pulses include:
- Bambara groundnut
- Chickpeas
- Cowpeas
- Black eyed pea
- Dry beans, including
- Common bean
- several species of Vigna, such as the lentil
- Fava or broad beans
- Hyacinth bean
- Lablab
- Lentils
- Lupins
- Moringa oleifera
- Peas
- Peanuts
- Pigeon peas
- Sterculia
- Velvet beans
- Winged beans
- Yam beans
- Soybeans
Although some beans can be consumed raw, some need to be heated before consumption. In certain cultures, beans that need heating are initially prepared as a seed cake. Beans that need heating include:
- Acacia spp. (e.g. Acacia aneura (mulga), Acacia cowleana, Acacia estrophiolata (ironweed), Acacia ligulata (umbrella bush), Acacia murrayana (tjuntjula), Acacia tetragonophylla (wakalpulka), Acacia kempeana (Witchetty bush), Acacia coriacea (Wiry wattle), Acacia notabilis, Acacia pyrifolia, Acacia tetragonophylla, Acacia victoriae, Acacia sophorae, Acacia stenophylla, Acacia tumida)
- Aleurites moluccana
- Atriplex nummularia (Old man saltbush)
- Panicum spp. (e.g. Panicum australiense, Panicum decompositum, Panicum effusum)
- Amaranthus mitchellii
- Amaranthus grandiflorus
- Brachiaria spp. (e.g. Brachiaria piligera Brachiaria milliformis)
- Brachychiton spp. (e.g. Brachychiton diversifolium Brachychiton gregorii, Brachychiton paradoxum, Brachychiton populneum)
- Bruguiera rheedii
- Calandrinia balonensis
- Canarium australianum
- Canavalia maritima
- Entada phaseolides
- Eragrostris spp. (Wangunu) (e.g. Eragrostris eriopoda)
- Eucalyptus leptopoda
- Eucalyptus microtheca
- Astrelba pectinata (Mitchell grass)
- Portulaca oleracea
- Portulaca intraterranea
- Marsilea drummondii (Nardoo)
- Nymphae gigantea
- Rhyncharrhena linearis
- Themeda australis
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