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Adzuki bean

Vigna angularisAlso called Vigna angularis and azuki bean

Adzuki beans are the seeds of a legume. Cooks boil or simmer them, blend them into a paste, and pair them with sugar.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Part used
Seed
Family
Fabaceae
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
China
Adzuki bean, whole

Photo: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use adzuki bean

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Boil simmer
  • Paste blend

Goes well with

Nutrition

What 100 g of adzuki bean holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 24%Fat 1%Carbohydrate 76%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of adzuki bean, raw
Energy329 kcal · 1,377 kJ
Protein20 g
Fat0.53 g
of which saturated0.19 g
Carbohydrate63 g
Fibre13 g
Sodium5 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of adzuki bean, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium1,254 mg
Calcium66 mg
Iron5 mg
Magnesium127 mg
Zinc5 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)1 µg
Folate622 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 173727), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where adzuki bean is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses adzuki bean. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list adzuki bean among their ingredients.

Origins

First cultivated
about 3,000 BCE

On the table

Dishes made with adzuki bean

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Bakpia

    China, Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include adzuki bean.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: adzuki bean in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What adzuki bean is called

Names in 54 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Vigna angularis · Azuki · Judía Azuki · Adzuki

  • French

    Haricot azuki · Vigna angularis · Haricot adzuki · Adzuki

  • Italian

    Vigna angularis · fagiolo azuki · azuki

  • Portuguese

    Feijão-azuqui · Azuki · Vigna angularis

  • German

    Adzukibohne · Vigna angularis · Azukibohne · Adzuki-Bohne

  • Dutch

    adukiboon

  • Turkish

    Vigna angularis

  • Russian

    Адзуки · Vigna angularis · Фасоль угловатая

  • Polish

    Fasola azuki · Phaseolus angularis · Vigna angularis · Fasola adzuki

  • Arabic

    لوبياء مقرنة · ماش

  • Persian

    لوبیای آزوکی · آزوکی · لوبیای ازوکی · ازوکی

  • Hebrew

    אזוקי

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  • Albanian

    Vigna angularis

  • Aragonese

    Vigna angularis

  • Asturian

    Vigna angularis

  • Basque

    Azuki

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Vigna angularis

  • Bulgarian

    Vigna angularis

  • Cantonese

    紅豆

  • Catalan

    mongeta azuki · Vigna angularis · mongetera azuki · azuki

  • Cebuano

    Vigna angularis

  • Chinese

    紅豆 · 小豆 · 红小豆 · 赤豆

  • Czech

    vigna hranatá · Vigna angularis · azuki

  • Egyptian Arabic

    لوبيا مقرنه

  • Esperanto

    Azuki-fabo · Azukio

  • Extremaduran

    Vigna angularis

  • Finnish

    Azukipapu · Adukipapu · Adzukipapu · Vigna angularis

  • Galician

    Vigna angularis

  • Hakka Chinese

    Fùng-theu

  • Hungarian

    azukibab · Vigna angularis · azuki · adzukibab

  • Ido

    Vigna angularis

  • Indonesian

    Kacang azuki

  • Interlingua

    Vigna angularis

  • Interlingue

    Vigna angularis

  • Irish

    Vigna angularis

  • Japanese

    アズキ · 小豆 · あずき

  • Korean

    팥

  • Latin

    Vigna angularis

  • Lithuanian

    Japoninė pupuolė · Raudonoji pupelė · Vigna angularis · Japoniškoji pupuolė

  • Malay

    Kacang Merah

  • Manchu

    ᠰᡳᠰᠠ

  • Min Nan Chinese

    Âng-tāu

  • Occitan

    Vigna angularis

  • Romanian

    Vigna angularis · fasolea adzuki

  • Serbian

    Азуки пасуљ · Vigna angularis · Црвени пасуљ

  • Simplified Chinese

    赤豆

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    赤豆

  • Slovenian

    azuki fižol · Vigna angularis · adzuki fožol

  • Swahili

    Muazuki

  • Swedish

    Azukiböna · Adzukiböna · Adukiböna · Azukibönor

  • szy

    lihum

  • Thai

    ถั่วอาซูกิ

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    紅豆

  • Ukrainian

    Адзукі

  • Vietnamese

    Đậu đỏ · Vigna angularis

  • Volapük

    Vigna angularis

  • Waray

    Vigna angularis

  • Zhuang

    Lwglimz

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q380279

Photos

Photo: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons