Lentil, Lablab purpureus (Linn.)

Sweet, generic name of lentil, alias fire-sickle lentil, vine bean, along the hedge bean, magpie bean, check bean, moonwort, dicotyledonous plants. There are also many species, such as: white lentils, purple lentils, oil beans, snake beans, pig's ear beans (shaped like pig's ears). It is a perennial, twining vine in the genus Lentil, family Leguminosae. It is a kind of bean plant.

Vigna unguiculata , also called cowpea, is a vegetable produced in abundance in summer. It is a cultivar of the cowpea species that forms long pods, and is a twining annual herb. It is also known as bean horn, longhorn bean, strap bean, and skirt bean. Contains various vitamins and minerals. The young pods are fleshy and plump, crisp and tender for frying, and can also be blanched and cold or pickled. The pods are long and tubular, crunchy and soft, and there are two common types of white and green string beans. In the purchase of bean curd, generally uniform thickness of bean strips, bright color, transparent and glossy, full of seeds for the best, and there are cracks, skin wrinkles, strips too thin without a child, the skin has a worm scar of bean curd should not be purchased. Nutritional composition of the bean is very good, is a vegetable in the meat.