Leisureguy on Nostr: Just refreshed my bean knowledge: 1. Canned beans are about 3x the cost of dried ...

Just refreshed my bean knowledge:

1. Canned beans are about 3x the cost of dried beans, but

2. the two are equal in nutritional value, except

3. canned beans are high in salt,

4. but if you rinse the beans and discard canned liquid, that gets rid of about half the salt —

5. but also loses some nutritients, so...

6. buy canned beans with no salt added & use the beans and the liquid both.

The most nutritious beans are black lentils: dark in color, and high proportion of skin to cotyledon