the.com/lima bean
the legume so divisive it built a personality on being despised at dinner tables
means A flat, kidney-shaped pale-green legume eaten as a vegetable, also called the butter bean.
from Named for Lima, the capital of Peru, where these beans were cultivated long before Europeans arrived and from whose port they were shipped out to the wider world — the city's name riding along on the cargo. (English speakers often say LY-ma even though the city is LEE-ma.) The name traces back to early-1800s usage, the bean and the place forever stitched together.
- natural cyanide
- raw ones contain cyanide-producing compounds, so boil them
- ancient cash
- cultivated in Peru over 7,000 years ago
- named city
- named after Lima, the Peruvian capital
- also called
- known as butter beans in the American South
- toxic levels regulated
- US limits cyanide content in imported varieties