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- Peas

Or if you like, peas.
It is the name of several plants, with similar fruits
Seeds .

They are species spread throughout the world. Some of its origins are found in southern Europe before the Christian era, and the Romans and Greeks knew it. Some of them are grown in Canada and the United States, and in Greece and the Middle East. India grows chick peas in a land area equal to the area of ​​sugar cane grown in the world, and obtains from it a production estimated at about 100 million.
dollar .

To give an idea of ​​the nutritional components of peas, we say that dried samples of them were analyzed, and the analysis came out with the following numbers, on average: 13.3 water, 16.7 useless carbohydrates, 2.4 sugar, 47.6 starch, and 20 percent. Protein.
What is important here is a lot of protein.

- Beans ;

Just as there are different types of peas, so there are different types of beans.
Including Egyptian fava beans, which are used in filling. Including cowpeas, including beans. All of them are foreign names indicating that their origins are not Arabic, and some of them do not have an Arabic name. They are all legumes, with a high amount of protein, as in peas.

- soybean

And soybeans, the tree was grown in China in 2838 BC, as the records indicate. It is native to southeastern Asia, and there are about 1,000 varieties in these regions.
Manchuria occupies the forefront in exporting it, followed by Korea, Japan, China, and Indonesia.
It is the most famous legume in the Far East. And their food is there

(The pea is a common variety, and you can see its long pods in the picture.)

the rice . Therefore, it must be supplemented in terms of its protein deficiency with legumes that contain protein. This legume was soybeans.

Soybeans are one of the most complete plant foods.
He is brought to the table in various ways. Milk is made from it and is used in cooking, and medicine recommends it for children and diabetics, due to its low starch content and high protein content.
The oil is extracted from soybeans, yielding about one-sixth of its weight in oil, and the remainder is flour.

And dissolved flour from soybeans, full fat,
The analysis gave the following numbers: 7.0 from water, 13.3 from starch and the like, and 39.5 from protein.

The protein of these beans is very similar to animal protein in structure. It is similar to the so-called cheese protein
With cheese.
This is why beans in industry are also dangerous.
US interest in it has increased over the course of a quarter century
The latter, and occupied a serious place in its cultivation.

It was his intention to farm in the eastern countries
The middle. In the Arab countries, we did not hear what happened after that.
It remains to say more that the soybean plant is a small plant
My surroundings are dense.

(There is another type of pea in which the pod has opened.)

- And peanuts;

It is a true legume, even if its peel differs from that of a bean pod, this peel is nothing but a pod.

The peanut is an annual plant with dense leaves
Especially strange, its fruits ripen in the belly of the soil.

The plant's first homeland was South America, then the Portuguese discoverers carried it from there to the ancient world. It is now grown widely in India, East and West Africa, China, and Indonesia. It was carried to the United States by African black slaves, and it is now one of the largest crops in the southern United States.

The plant is harvested by plowing the land and extracting what is hidden in the soil, including the fruit. The fruit is then extracted from the plant, cleaned and polished. As for the plant, it is used as fodder, or it is mixed with the soil to form a beneficial nitrogen fertilizer, as we previously mentioned.

Peanuts are nutritious. A pound of them produces 2,700 calories in the body, while a pound of veal produces 900 calories.

Oil is extracted from beans and is used for the table, salad, and in cooking. It is also added to sardines in a sealed can.

- lentils;

Lentils are one of the oldest known legumes and one of the most nutritious. Its first home is southwest Asia, and from there it entered Egypt and Greece.

The lentil plant is a thin annual plant, with many bushes
Branches.

Its horns are short and wide.
As for its seed, it is round. In the science of light, they made a disc out of glass, with a shallow sphere, and called it a lens.
It was given this name only because of its resemblance to a lentil seed.

In the French language, we find the name of this glass lens and the name of the lentil is the same. In English, it is Lens, and in French, it is Lentille. In terms of nutrition, what we mentioned about other legumes applies to lentils, meaning that increasing the amount of protein they contain means that its eaters, especially the poor, will not have to eat meat if its availability or price is high.

Lentils and beans are the most desirable food for the poor.