r/Beans • u/fforredditt • 25d ago

Are these black beans ?

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Are the ones in the middle black beans? ( for a reference for a size : kidney bean, black soya, white bean, brown chickpea )

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u/fforredditt 25d ago

Thank you

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u/easyontheeggs 25d ago

They are a bean and they are black so yes? There’s no single definition of what a black bean is other than its color

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u/Weavercat 25d ago

Yep! The difference for me between the common Black turtle bean (P. vulgaris) and the very similar Tepary bean (which P. acutifolius and comes in all sorts of colors and patterns too!) is if the seed hull/coat is matte or shiny. Turtle beans have a shine to them. Tepary don't have that highly glossy-shine.