Green beans

Yes, green beans are legumes — but with a clarification:

✅ Why green beans are legumes:

• Botanically, green beans come from the Fabaceae (legume) family, the same family as lentils, peas, and soybeans.
• They are immature pods of the bean plant (typically Phaseolus vulgaris), harvested before the seeds inside fully develop.

🌱 But here’s the distinction:

• When we talk about “legumes” in a dietary or nutritional sense, we usually mean dry, mature seeds (like kidney beans, chickpeas, lentils).
• Green beans are eaten whole — pod and all — and are more like a vegetable in how they’re used in cooking and nutritionally (low in protein compared to dried beans).

🔍 Summary:

Category	Green Beans
Botanical Family	Legume (Fabaceae)
Edible Form	Immature pod with small seeds inside
Used As	Vegetable
Protein Content	Low (compared to dry legumes)

So yes, green beans are legumes, but used and classified culinarily as vegetables.