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Pulses and Legumes

Food list

Lentils

Other names (local names):

Types:

  1. Beluga lentils

  2. Black lentils

  3. Brown lentils

  4. Castelluccio lentils

  5. Crimson lentils

Nutritional value:

Peas

Other names (local names):

Types:

  1. Whole green peas
  2. Dried pigeon peas
  3. Whole yellow peas
  4. Green split peas
  5. Pigeon split peas
  6. Yellow split peas

Nutritional value:

Beans

Other names (local names):

Type:

  1. Adzuki Beans
  2. Anasazi Beans
  3. Appaloosa Beans
  4. Black Beans
  5. Black Calypso Beans
  6. Black-Eyed Peas,

Nutritional value:

Chickpea

Other names (local names):

Type:

  1. Kabuli chickpeas
  2. Desi chickpeas
  3. Split chickpeas

Nutritional value:

Soybeans

Other names (local names):

Type:

  1. Green soybeans
  2. Yellow soybeans
  3. Black soybeans
  4. Red soybeans
  5. Brown soybeans

Nutritional value:

Alfalfa

Other names (local names):

Type:

  1. Variegated alfalfas
  2. Flemish alfalfas

Nutritional value:

Clover Alternative Proteins Africa

Other names (local names):

Type:

  1. Red clover
  2. White clover

Nutritional value:

Lupins

Other names (local names):

Type:

  1. White lupin
  2. Narrow-leafed blue lupin

Nutritional value:

mesquite

Other names (local names):

Type:

  1. Velvet mesquite
  2. Honey mesquite
  3. Chilean mesquite
  4. Screwbean mesquite

Nutritional value:

Peanuts

Other names (local names):

Type:

  1. Runner
  2. Virginia
  3. Spanish
  4. Valencia

Nutritional value:

Tamarind

Other names (local names):

Type:

  1. Sweet tamarind
  2. Sour tamarind

Nutritional value:

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