The Field Guideby Moss & MarrowThe Field Guideby Moss & Marrow
Also called sperziebonen, prinsessenbonen, boontjes, haricots verts.
In the Netherlands, green beans are in season July to September, at their best in July and August. November is outside the Dutch season for green beans.
Dutch green beans are a July to September crop. Out of those months they are imported, often by air.
A fresh bean snaps rather than bends.
Fibre, vitamin K, folate and some vitamin C and manganese.
To get the most: Steam or stir-fry rather than boil, five to seven minutes; vitamin C and folate are the losses in boiling water.
On our nutrient density chart, a normal serving of cooked green beans (125 g) gives about half a day's vitamin K and about a tenth of a day's vitamin C, counting what your body absorbs. That puts them in the top 25% of the 244 foods we scored.
Content per NEVO, the Dutch food composition database. This describes what the food contains, not what it does for you.
Top them, leave the tails. Boil for five to seven minutes, then toss in butter, or cool and dress as a salad.
21 producers in The Field Guide sell green beans, according to their own website or shop list, each checked against our inclusion criteria and listed by province. Another 158 growers passed our bar for this food group; we have not yet recorded what each of them grows, so ask them or search the map.
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