This is Hu Bean:

Fava bean is an annual or transnational herb belonging to the legume family.

It is one of the important edible beans in legume vegetables, it can be fried, cold, and can be made into a variety of small food, it is a kind of mass food.

Fava beans contain a large amount of protein, second only to soybeans in the daily consumption of beans, but also contains a lot of calcium, potassium, magnesium, vitamin C, etc., and a more complete variety, especially rich.

On the origin of fava beans there are several points of view, generally believed to have originated in southwestern Asia, central and northern Asia. It was introduced into China from the western region during the Han Dynasty.

China's broad bean planting area is extensive, to Sichuan, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Hubei and other places.

The pods of broad beans are flattened and cylindrical, green when immature, with plump and juicy pod shells, and velvety velvet inside the pods, as they are rich in

, and black when mature. Each pod seeds 2 ~ 4, seed flattening, slightly moment round, seed coat color varies according to varieties, cream, gray, yellow, flesh red, brown, purple, lime green, etc., umbilical cord color has black palladium with two kinds.

Fava beans can be divided into three types according to the size of its grain: broad and flat, thousand grain weight in 800 grams or more, such as Sichuan, Qinghai production of large white fava beans, good quality, often for food or vegetable consumption; in the grain of the fava bean is flat oval, thousand grain weight of 600 to 800 grams; small grain of the fava bean nearly round or oval, thousand grain weight 400 to 650 grams, its yield is high. 650 grams, its yield is high, but the quality is poor, more as livestock and poultry drinks or green manure crops.

Fava beans can be divided into green beans, white beans and red beans according to the color of the seed coat.