Green beans or kidney beans are very common vegetables on people's dining tables in China, but because they are common and widely distributed, the name of the same vegetable will be different in many places, such as green beans and lentils.

So, what's the difference between green beans and lentils? The difference between green beans and lentils is 1, and the shapes of lentils and lentils are very different. Lentils, hence the name, are relatively flat bean components. It can also be divided into many different varieties, such as purple lentils and white lentils, but these lentils have thin bean skins and can be eaten with tender pods or only beans.

Green beans, also known as kidney beans, are round bean ingredients, and their shapes are close to those of human fingers.

2. Lentils with different functions are a kind of special food with dual functions of medicine and food. Its fruit can be used as medicine, and it is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with excellent function. In addition, there is a natural substance in lentils that is fake protein, which is a natural anticancer component.

So lentils can not only be used as medicine, but also be used to prevent cancer. These characteristics are not possessed by green beans, and they are also the biggest functional difference between lentils and green beans.

3. Different fruit sizes Although lentils and green beans are leguminous ingredients, lentils produce larger beans when they are fully mature. Although there are many different colors, they are very similar in appearance, but green beans are not. When they mature, they can also bear leguminous fruits, but the volume is relatively small. Lentils and green beans are sold as vegetables, but green beans are basically invisible, especially flat beans.

Variety characteristics of green beans Green beans like warmth, afraid of high temperature and low temperature.

The suitable temperature for growth is 15~30℃, and the suitable temperature for flowering and pod setting is 20~25℃.

Above 30℃ or below l5℃, green beans can't pollinate and pod normally, and serious chilling injury or even freezing injury will occur below 3qC.

Green beans do not have high requirements on the length of sunshine, so long as they meet the needs of temperature and moisture, they can be planted all year round.

Green beans have strict requirements on water content, like to be wet, and are afraid of waterlogging and drought, especially high temperature and drought will cause serious yield reduction or even no harvest.

Green beans avoid continuous cropping and need less soil nutrients, more potassium and nitrogen, and less phosphorus, but phosphorus has a great influence on yield.

Phosphate fertilizer must be applied to grow green beans.