8 delicious types briefly presented

Fillet bean, wax bean, dry boiled bean or cut bean?

Runner beans are called runner beans because they need a climbing aid (pole) for their growth. So they are called because of their growth habit. The counterpart are French beans, which grow bush-like and none Climbing aid require. Another way of dividing beans is by use. Here z. B. A distinction is made between fillet or green beans, wax beans and cut or cut beans.

• Fillet beans or green beans: have no threads and are particularly tender
• Wax beans or butter: yellowish-white, tender beans, often used in salads or canned foods.
• Dry boiled bean: Also called pearl bean. This species is mainly grown for the extraction of dry seeds, but the pods can also be cooked and eaten green.
• Cut beans, sword beans or green beans: If cut into pieces, mostly used for soups and stews, they become fibrous if they are harvested too late.

These individual bean types cannot always be distinguished from one another. For example, there are stringless wax beans or dried beans, such as the Goldmarie variety, which is both a fillet bean and a wax bean.

Filet beans The most delicious stringless runner beans

These runner beans have no threads:

• Blauhilde: purple pods, purple flowers, brown seeds, medium late
• Neckarkönigin: very popular, high-yielding variety, fleshy, tender, robust against diseases and in extreme weather

Wax beans: Yellow runner beans

• Anellino Giallo: Italian, stringless variety, late harvest, noble aromatic
• Goldmarie: very broad pods, very early variety, can also withstand cold weather, very aromatic and stringless!

Dry boiled beans: runner beans with brightly colored, large seeds

• Zebrina: purple-green speckled pods, cream-colored seeds with black speckles
• Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco: red and white speckled pods and seeds, ripe pods turn white and purple

Runner beans: runner beans for stews

• Limka: broad sword bean, stringless and tender, medium early
• Helda: wide and long, very productive