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CRANBERRY BEANS


Cranberry beans are our most colorful legume. They are shaped like greenstring beans, but the pod is cream-colored and speckled with pink markings,as is the inner bean. The pretty outer pod is never used. In the UnitedStates, primarily in the South and in Italian neighborhoods, cranberry beansare used as a fresh shell bean. In Latin America they are used primarilyas a dry bean. When selecting cranberry beans, pick out the most colorfulpods. Very often they will be offered with not too attrractive, dried-outpods. Open one up-if the inner bean is colorful and fresh-looking, theyare worth buying. The off-color cranberry beans should be offered at reducedprices.