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That Green Beans...

·         Contain vitamin A, B-complex vitamins, calcium, potassium and Beta-Carotene.

·         Green beans are diuretic and may be used to treat diabetes.

·         A fresh bean should snap crisply and feels velvety to the touch.

·         Recent study has shown that green beans have impressive antioxidant capacity. Research comparing the overall antioxidant capacity of green beans to other foods in the pea and bean families (e.g. snow peas or winged beans) has found green beans to come out on top.

·         Green beans may be a particularly helpful food for providing us with the mineral silicon. This mineral—while less well known than minerals like calcium and magnesium—is very important for bone health and for healthy formation of connective tissue. Green beans have recently been shown to stack up quite well against other commonly-eaten foods as a good source of absorb-able silicon.

·         Green beans have recently been shown to have impressive antioxidant capacity. Research comparing the overall antioxidant capacity of green beans to other foods in the pea and bean families (for example, snow peas or winged beans) has found green beans to come out on top.