• A noodle by any other name … would still be a bean . unripe beans are also known as French Beans ( if you ’re British ) , drawstring beans or snatch up beans .
• The Green noodle we exhaust today are not , as many intend , a native of North America but rather of Central and South America . other varieties were especially fibrous , with the fiber developing along the bed . Through the years , flora breeders have almost eliminated this trait making the bean , well , snappier !
• Before the eighties , Green beans had to be cooked for an extremely prospicient clock time to be considered edible . Then Calvin Keeney , “ Father of the Stringless Bean , ” acquire snap beans for Burpee Company in 1889 . But by the 1950s the beans had evolved again - the Blue Lake mixed bag were ( and are ) " dark green , orotund , firm , straight , and stringless , " and a favorite ever since .
• noodle , beans they ’re good for your heart , the more you eat them the more … Protein , Riboflavin , Niacin , Vitamin B6 , Calcium , Iron , Magnesium , Phosphorus , Potassium and Copper you have ! Green Beans are also down in Sodium , and very low in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol .
• Green beans can be grown on a bush ( give rise a low to the earth , very bountiful crop ) or a pole ( with less outturn but with what many look at a good , " nuttier " feeling ) .
• Other varieties include apurple snap bean ! And , in China , you could getGreen bean ice cream .
• Green bonce casserole is still the most popular of all casseroles , having been invented for an Associated Press article in 1955 . Of the hundreds of soup - based formula make , the Green bean casserole rest king , and apparently is a peach that is rather hard to get wrong .
• The French idiom " C’est la five des haricots " means " it ’s the remainder of the light-green attic , " i.e. it ’s hopeless .
• remarkably , researchers at the University of Murcia and the University of Complutense in Spain have determined that Green beans not onlyretain their antioxidant valueafter simmering , they actuallyincreasetheir antioxidant after most cooking treatments .
• Finally , a food fete in my ( relative ) neck of the Grant Wood ! The annualGreen Bean Festivalin Blairsville , Georgia includes a green noodle pizza eating contest ( this is something I could get behind ) .
• For a long time I was a known and tearing hater of Green beans until I see you could roast them ! But no one ’s hate of the Green noodle match my puerility protagonist Anna , who sat at the board refusing to rust them for a battle of Marathon amount of meter , an incident sleep with ever since as " The Green Bean Caper . "
• What about you , Flossers ? How do you wish ( or loathe ) your Green beans?IsGreen bean casserole your favorite ? Have you ever get the bean yourself ?
‘ Dietribes ’ appears every other Wednesday . Food photos take byJohanna Beyenbach . You might commend that name from our post about hercolorful diet .
