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Beans & pulses

Common bean

Phaseolus vulgaris, PhaseolusAlso called bean and phaseolus

The common bean is a kind of bean. Cooks treat it as a pulse.

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

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

Family
Fabaceae
Cooked most in
Africa, Asia, Europe
Top country
Iran
Common bean, packaged

Photo: Jay Superthato · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Around the world

Where common bean is cooked

5 dishes in the catalogue use common 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 common bean among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
Americas

  1. The 1500s · Europe

    Common beans reached Europe through the Columbian exchange in the 1500s.

On the table

Dishes made with common bean

3 of the 5 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Aşure

  • Cachupa

    Cabo Verde

  • Piyaz

    Iraq, Iran, Türkiye

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: common 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

Family

Related forms

A kind of
bean
Kinds
black bean, green bean, kidney bean
Varieties
black bean, kidney bean

Cooked together

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

What common bean is called

Names in 14 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    frijol común · alubia · frijol · habichuela

  • French

    haricot commun · grain de haricot

  • Italian

    fagiolo · fagiolo comune

  • Portuguese

    feijão comum · feijão · grão de feijão

  • Russian

    фасолины · сушёные бобы · сухая фасоль · сухие бобы

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    фасоля

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    feijão comum · feijão · grão de feijão

  • Catalan

    fesol comú sec

  • Esperanto

    ordinara fazeolusguŝo

  • Galician

    faba común · chicho común · feixón común

  • Hungarian

    szárazbab

  • Latvian

    žāvētas pupiņas

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  • Ligurian

    faxeu · faxö · faixö · faijœ

  • Lombard

    Fasoeù

  • Slovenian

    fižol v zrnu

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q74662248

Photos

Photo: Jay Superthato · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons