Cowpeas and string beans are not the same thing, cowpeas are also known as bean curd, cowpeas have a downward-sloping linear appearance, and cowpeas usually mature in the summer. On the other hand, four-season beans are also known as kidney beans, which are generally shorter than cowpeas but thicker than cowpeas, and have a strip-like, slightly swollen appearance, and four-season beans mature in all seasons.
Introduction to Cowpea
Cowpea is a vegetable that has been grown for a long time and is one of the oldest vegetables in the world, it has kidney shaped seeds when mature and comes in a variety of colors such as black, red, and brown, and it blooms with flowers that are white, purple, or pale yellow.
About Four Season Beans
Four Season Beans is one of the most common vegetables on the table of Chinese people, which is rich in B vitamins, vitamin C, plant protein and other nutrients and trace elements. Long-term consumption of four seasonal beans can enhance appetite, spleen and stomach, if it is in the summer more consumption of four seasonal beans, can play the role of summer clear mouth.
Difference between cowpeas and string beans
The appearance of cowpeas and string beans is very different, cowpea pods are more bulbous in appearance, it is longer than the length of string beans, the surface is rougher to the touch, and the bean seeds are very obvious with bulging out of the skin.
However, the pod of the four-season bean is long and skinny looking, like a long, thin stick, and its surface is smoother and rounder in texture, with the seeds not protruding too much from the skin.