On Food and Cooking

Black-eyed  pea,    cowpea,

crowder

Vigna

unguiculata

Bambara groundnut Vigna subterranea

Natives of  Central and South   America

Bean,   common  bean,

haricot,    etc.

Phaseolus

vulgaris

Lima    bean,   butter  bean Phaseolus  lunatus

Tepary  bean Phaseolus  acutifolius

Runner  bean Phaseolus  coccineus

Peanut Arachis  hypogaea

The seed coat is interrupted only at the
hilum, the small depression where the seed
has been attached to the pod, and where it will
absorb water once it’s in the ground or the
pot. The seed coat may be fairly thin, as in the
peanut, but is as much as 15% by weight of
the chickpea and 30% of the lupin. The