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Quotes About Legumes

I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice.
~ Prince Fielder
Peas are terrible and a joke food.
~ Annie Murphy
Most of the rare species seemed to be very fond of clover, particularly red clover, and other wild legumes such as tufted vetch and bird's-foot trefoil, probably because these plants provide pollen that is unusually rich in protein.
~ Dave Goulson
If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.
~ Jean-Henri Fabre
It is not easy for me to digest meat. I waste too much energy in digesting meat, and that's why I get my proteins from other products. I like beans and other legume plants very much. I need a lot of 'live' products such as fruit and vegetables.
~ Ilya Ilyin
American bean cookery owes a lot to the Indians who, by the time the European colonists arrived, had been cooking and eating beans for at least 600 years.
~ Rebecca Rupp
Since Roman times, farmers have periodically planted their fields with Rhizobia-toting legumes to add fixed nitrogen to the soil.
~ Rebecca Rupp
First of all, you want to do the soaking with almost all of the larger beans because that will take care of the gas, and second of all... they want to be seasoned and flavored.
~ Crescent Dragonwagon
Friese boeren eten alle dagen grauwe capucijners. - Butler
~ Eoin Colfer
Beans or legumes are among the world's most perfect foods. They stabilize blood sugar, blunt the desire for sweets, and prevent mid-afternoon cravings. Even
~ Joel Fuhrman
And people who eat beans merely twice a week were found to have about a 50 percent reduction of colon cancer.8 Imagine the protection we would achieve if we ate beans almost every day in conjunction with other well-investigated cancer-fighting foods.
~ Joel Fuhrman
Do not eat field peas, black-eyed peas, speckled peas, red peas or brown peas. Do not eat lima beans, or baby limas. Do not eat any bean but the small navy bean -- the little brown pink ones, and the white ones.
~ Elijah Muhammad
Garbanzo Beans (chickpeas)
~ Jonny Bowden
Peanuts/Peanut Butter
~ Jonny Bowden
Why Red Beans Take the Cake Finally, if that weren't enough, there's the vitamin content of beans.
~ Jonny Bowden
compost is trucked in; some crops also receive fish emulsion along with their water and a side dressing of pelleted chicken manure. Over the winter a cover crop of legumes is planted to build up nitrogen in the soil.
~ Michael Pollan
The most troublesome plant lectins are found in the hulls of grains, in beans and legumes, and the nightshade family - specifically the peels and seeds of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc.
~ Steven Gundry
Beans SIDEKICKS: All beans are included in this SuperFood category, though we'll discuss the most popular and readily available beans such as pinto, navy, Great Northern, lima, garbanzo (chickpeas), lentils, green beans, sugar snap peas, and green peas TRY TO EAT: at least four ½-cup servings per week Beans contain: Low-fat protein Fiber B vitamins Iron Folate Potassium Magnesium Phytonutrients
~ Steven G. Pratt
Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Lentils, beans, and other legumes, such as chickpeas, are all excellent sources of fiber.
~ Harley Pasternak
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
~ Dan Buettner
Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
~ Nadia Giosia
The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
~ David F. Houston
Most people think if you are vegan you eat just green stuff, you just eat salad and lettuce and veggies the whole day... I'm eating beans, legumes, lentils and peas and rice and potatoes and a lot of things that have calories to give me the energy to do what I do.
~ Patrik Baboumian