name: Gram Bean

flavor_db_name_variants: gram bean

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Gram bean

id: 199

name_scientific: Vigna mungo

description: Vigna mungo, known as Urad Dal, black gram, black lentil (not to be confused with the much smaller true black lentil (Lens culinaris)), white lentil, black matpe bean, is a bean grown in Indian subcontinent. It, along with the mung bean, was placed in Phaseolus, but has since been transferred to Vigna. At one time it was considered to belong to the same species as the mung bean. The product sold as "black lentil" is usually the whole urad bean or urad dal. The product sold as "white lentil" is the same lentil with the black skin removed.

itis_id: 506273

wikipedia_id: Vigna_mungo

picture_file_name: 199.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 172913

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:30:21.000Z

legacy_id: 211

food_group: Pulses

food_subgroup: Beans

food_type: Type 1

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

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:19.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3915

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00199