Green beans
Green beans are immature bean pods eaten as a vegetable, commonly steamed, sautéed, braised, or added to salads and stews.
About Green beans
Green beans are immature bean pods harvested while they are still tender and green, before the seeds mature into dried beans. The entire pod is generally eaten and is commonly steamed, sautéed, boiled, braised, stir-fried, or added to salads, soups, and stews.
They have a crisp, juicy, or softly yielding texture depending on freshness and cooking. Their flavour is mild, grassy, and vegetal, while pod shapes and fibre levels vary among cultivars.
Green beans may be prepared whole, trimmed, sliced, or cut into shorter pieces. They are sold fresh, frozen, or canned; the plural wording describes the same whole-pod ingredient across these common culinary uses.
- Ingredient type
- whole food
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Local names for green beans
Names and romanised forms to recognise on menus and labels.
haricots verts
judías verdes
ejotes
grüne Bohnen
Green beans
green beans
vagens verdes
fagiolini
sperziebonen
mongetes verdes
taze fasulyeler
fasolka szparagowa
zelené fazolky
zelené fazuľky
zöldbab
păstăi verzi
φασολάκια
fasolákia
हरी फलियाँ
harī phaliyā̃
সবুজ শিম
sabuj śim
さやいんげん
saya ingen
四季豆
sìjìdòu
풋강낭콩
putgangnangkong
buncis
kacang buncis
fasolákia
Romanised form
saya ingen
Romanised form
Baby Toddler green beans, Stage 1
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Baby Toddler green beans, Stage 2
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Fried green beans
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Green beans, canned, cooked with butter or margarine
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Green beans, canned, cooked with oil
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Green beans, canned, cooked, fat added, NS as to fat type
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Green beans, canned, cooked, no added fat
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Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked with butter or margarine
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Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked with oil
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Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, fat added, NS as to fat type
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Green beans, canned, reduced sodium, cooked, no added fat
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Green beans, cooked, as ingredient
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Green beans, dried
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Green beans, fresh, cooked with butter or margarine
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Green beans, fresh, cooked with oil
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Green beans, fresh, cooked, fat added, NS as to fat type
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Green beans, fresh, cooked, no added fat
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Green beans, frozen, cooked with butter or margarine
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Green beans, frozen, cooked with oil
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Green beans, frozen, cooked, fat added, NS as to fat type
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Green beans, frozen, cooked, no added fat
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Green beans, NS as to form, cooked
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Green beans, pickled
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Green beans, raw
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very fine green beans
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putgangnangkong
Romanised form
sabuj śim
Romanised form
sìjìdòu
Romanised form
harī phaliyā̃
Romanised form
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Green beans nutrition & diet
Green beans nutritional value
Beans, snap, green, raw
Per 100 g of the edible portion in the recorded food form.
- Calories
- 31kcal
- Protein
- 1.8g
- Carbs
- 7.0g
- Fat
- 0.2g
Reference values for the specific food form shown. Other varieties, brands and preparations can differ.
Portions & preparation
Record the edible immature pods after trimming, including whether strings, stems, and visible seeds remain. Distinguish raw, steamed, boiled, sautéed, braised, frozen, and canned forms, and separate added oil, sauces, meat, or other dish ingredients from the bean portion.
Compare the right form: Match references to immature green bean pods in the stated fresh, frozen, or canned form, with trimming and preparation documented.
Diet considerations
Green beans are plant foods. Compatibility changes when prepared with bacon, meat stock, butter, dairy, batter, sauces, or cereal ingredients, and packaged versions may be seasoned or blended. Mature dried beans should not replace the specified immature pod form in a dietary or nutrition reference.
AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.
Dietary compatibility
- VeganNot established
- VegetarianNot established
- PescatarianNot established
- KetoNot established
- PaleoNot established
- Low-carbNot established
- HalalNot established
- KosherNot 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: USDA FoodData Central — Beans, snap, green, raw ↗. 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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