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Adzuki Bean Paste

Adzuki bean paste is a sweet or mildly sweet legume paste used in filled pastries, desserts, and confections.

Adzuki Bean Paste — illustrative ingredient image

About Adzuki Bean Paste

Adzuki bean paste is a cooked and mashed preparation made from adzuki beans, usually with sugar and sometimes with a small amount of salt or other flavouring. It is used as a filling or topping for pastries, cakes, dumplings, buns, shaved-ice desserts, and other confections. It should not be confused with whole cooked adzuki beans.

Its flavour ranges from sweet to mildly sweet, depending on formulation. The texture may be smooth and spreadable or coarse and visibly bean-textured, with a prepared consistency distinct from intact beans or a dry legume.

The paste appears deep red, reddish-brown, or dark purplish depending on the beans and processing. It may be sold ready-made or prepared by cooking and mashing the beans; added sugar, syrup, salt, flavouring, or further straining changes its colour, sweetness, smoothness, and spreadability.

Ingredient type
paste

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Adzuki Bean Paste

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Adzuki Bean Paste nutrition & diet

Adzuki Bean Paste nutritional value

Adzuki beans, mature seeds, "An" (bean paste), "Tsubushi-an" (mushed sweet bean paste) — MEXT 04006

Per 100 g of the edible portion in the explicitly named reference form.

Calories
239kcal
Protein
5.6g
Carbs
54.0g
Fat
0.6g

Per 100 g edible portion. Values use MEXT 2023 with March 2026 corrections; the English food name is matched by food code from the official English edition. Carbohydrate is total carbohydrate by difference. Values in parentheses in the source are estimates reported by MEXT. This reference does not cover other preparations or brands.

Portions & preparation

Use the specific adzuki bean paste and identify whether it is sweetened, unsweetened, smooth, chunky, strained, or combined with other ingredients. Portion and preparation matter because fillings, spreads, and dessert components may include sugar, oil, starch, or syrups beyond the cooked beans.

Compare the right form: Match references to prepared adzuki paste in the same sweetened or unsweetened, smooth or chunky form; brand or recipe matters.

Diet considerations

Adzuki bean paste is plant-derived when made from beans and plant-based sweeteners or thickeners. Commercial and bakery versions may contain dairy, eggs, gelatin, fats, wheat, rice flour, or other cereal ingredients. Its compatibility depends on the formulation and on the pastry, coating, or dessert in which it is served.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Not established
  • Vegetarian
    Not established
  • Pescatarian
    Not established
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    Not established
  • Low-carb
    Not established
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Vegetarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Pescatarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · Not established
The ingredient form and processing have not been assessed against this dietary pattern.
Low-carb · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: MEXT Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan, 2023 supplement, corrected March 2026 ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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