name: Broad Bean

flavor_db_name_variants: broad bean

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Broad bean

id: 197

name_scientific: Vicia faba

description: Vicia faba, also known as the broad bean, fava bean, faba bean, field bean, bell bean, or tic bean, is a species of bean (Fabaceae) native to North Africa, southwest and south Asia, and extensively cultivated elsewhere. A variety Vicia faba var. equina Pers. - horse bean has been provisionally recognized. Broad beans are eaten while still young and tender, enabling harvesting to begin as early as the middle of spring for plants started under glass or overwintered in a protected location, but even the main crop sown in early spring will be ready from mid to late summer. Horse beans, left to mature fully, are usually harvested in the late autumn. The young leaves of the plant can also be eaten either raw or cooked like spinach.

itis_id: 26339

wikipedia_id: Broad_bean

picture_file_name: 197.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 42037

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:32:55.000Z

legacy_id: 209

food_group: Pulses

food_subgroup: Beans

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:25.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:18.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3906

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00197