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A flat, light green or white colored bean with a kidney shape that has a mild flavor and soft texture.

A generic name given to various plants in the legume family including kidney, navy, fava, pinto, lima, black, red, green, chickpea, and lentil.

A dry shelled bean that grows within a large, knobby beige pod with patches of red running throughout the length of the bean pod.

Small, dark red beans that have a slightly sweet taste. They are available precooked in cans or dried, which require soaking to rehydrate.

A mealy-textured bean that has a blotchy brown and tan colored skin. The oval shaped bean makes a good refried bean and is used in other dishes, such as beans and rice, chili, soups and stews.

A dried bean considered to have originated in New Mexico as a traditional Native American food for over a thousand years.

A variety of bean often considered being an immature kidney bean, about a half-inch in length, with a pale green color.

Chestnut brown in color with a small white-eye, this variety of dried bean is grown on a bush and then dried for use in a variety of foods.

A flat, light green to all white in color, this dried bean has a kidney shape and provides a mild flavor with a soft texture.

A food flavoring derived from the tiny seeds contained in the pod of an orchid plant. The most common types of beans are grown primarily in Madagascar, Mexico or Tahiti.

Mild in flavor, the Calypso bean is a dried heirloom bean that is a member of the kidney bean family of legumes.

A small bean, very common in India that provides a good source of protein when cooked as a food dish.

A white oval bean with a thin skin and mild flavor. It is also known as the Cannellini bean and is available canned or dried.

A large dried bean that is round in shape, white in color and similar to a fava bean. Both a sweet albus and bitter albus variety of this bean seed are grown for consumption, however, the bitter if not soaked may be toxic.

A Mexican dish that is made from cooked red beans or pinto beans, which are mashed and then fried in fat or lard.

A tiny, round dried bean (about 1/8 inch in diameter) with a thick outer skin that may be green, brown or black in color.

Although it is not yellow in color, this bean does have a multi-colored look, displaying reddish brown and black hues over a white background.

A type of pulse commonly used in foods from India that may be served as sprouts, fresh pods, or as dried beans.

A fresh bean that grows in the sea in the form of a long, pencil thin, cylindrical green stem that may have spherical-shaped, spike-like buds on the ends.

The beans harvested from the coffee tree, which are dried and roasted. The beans can be sold whole or ground and are brewed with water to make a popular beverage.