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Beans

Posted by terrepruitt on July 22, 2010

Beans are so good for you.  I don’t like beans.  Well, I like green beans.  I like hummus.  I can sometimes tolerate garbanzo beans in a green salad, but if there are too many, I push them off to the side.  I don’t like legumes.

According to all the information I have seen in my fact finding mission for this post:  beans help lower “bad cholesterol” by helping it out of the body.  Beans have an excellent amount of fiber (really excellent amount fiber).  Beans have a lot of protein.  The ratio of fat to proteis is awesome.  These are some of the reasons I think I need to learn like beans.

Let’s look at two examples the kidney bean and the garbanzo bean (also known as chickpeas)

Kidney beans – 1 cup has

Calories: 225
Protein: 15.3g
Carbohydrate: 40.4g
Total Fat: 0.88g
Fiber: 11.3g
Iron: 5.2 mg
Magnesium: 80 my
Folate:  229 mcg*

Garbanzo beans (canned), 1 cup has

Calories: 286
Protein: 11.8g
Carbohydrate: 54.3g
Total Fat: 2.7g
Fiber: 10.5g
Folate: 160 mcg
Vitamin B6: 1.13 mg
Vitamin C: 9 mg
Zinc: 2.54 mg*

My next post (Saturday) I will share a Bean Salad recipe.  Come back and check it out!

*Source:  Truthstar Health website

Some additional info at: WHFoods Kidney  and  WHFoods Garbanzo

 

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8 Responses to “Beans”

  1. Dani H said

    July 22, 2010 at 10:09 pm

    I make my chili with dark red kidney beans. I grew up eating lima beans as an entree and multi-bean soups. I’ll be back for your Bean Salad recipe. 😉 *Big Squishy Hugs* ❤

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    • terrepruitt said

      July 22, 2010 at 10:12 pm

      Yeah, I don’t eat chili cuz I don’t like beans. Maybe I can start . . . . but I am not sure because it has tomatoes in it—usually and I am not a fan of cooked tomatoes. I just started eating the raws ones.

      Thank you so much for being such a great support, Miss Dani. I really appreciate it!!!!!!

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  2. Mayank said

    July 22, 2010 at 10:12 pm

    Hmmm Beans..Good and Nice Post….:)

    Regards,
    Mayank

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  3. Angelia Sims said

    July 24, 2010 at 8:01 am

    I like beans. All kinds of beans; black beans, pinto beans, kidney beans, navy beans, green beans, and edamami.

    YUM! Of course, sometimes beans don’t like me :-(. If you’ve ever heard that song…..

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