What's the difference between mature and immature broad beans? Do they look any different? i've got a bag of dried broad beans and a bag frozen broad beans. They look the same to me, but i checked out the mutrtional information and there is a huge difference between mature and immature.
I tried to google pictuues of the mature and immature ones they all look the same. is there anyway to tell them apart? thanks all.
I grow fava beans in my garden most years. I'm not familiar with mature vs immature, but if you pick favas when they are small (I guess that could be considered immature), you can cook them in the pod, like green beans. When they reach full size you need to de-pod them and also remove the outer skin of each bean. If you leave on the plant them a little longer, the flesh of the bean changes from green to yellowish. These are the ones that are dried and sold in bags. The frozen ones (never seen them, so I can't say for sure) are probably full sized beans that are still green.
Fresh (green) favas taste like peas, and dried favas like regular beans, so I expect there will be nutritional differences, but I like them both ways.
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