National Eat Your Beans Day:

National Eat Your Beans Day is celebrated on every July 3 to appreciate all varieties of legumes.

Twitter Hashtags:

#NationalEatYourBeansDay

 #EatYourBeansDay

Related: Other National Days Celebrated on July 3rd:

National Fried Clam Day

National Chocolate Wafer Day

Why National Eat Your Beans Day?

Today is the day to celebrate one of the three sisters of Indigenous people of Americas. Beans are culturally embedded in American history since 12^th century. As most of the widely eaten beans are originated from Mesoamerica, we shall have our pride that we introduced one of the famous healthy protein foods to the world. This day is to appreciate all varieties of Beans that add color to our healthy well-being and the day necessitate the need of beans to be added in our daily menu.

How can we observe National Eat Your Beans Day?

Popular beans: Though beans are of infinite Varieties when some of it are yet to be discovered, the below are the most popular beans,

• lima beans
• garbanzo beans
• black beans
• soybeans
• kidney beans
• pinto beans
• red beans
• black-eyed peas
• navy beans

Use the hashtags #NationalEatYourBeansDay and #EatYourBeans to share your favorite and the health benefits of beans.

Here are some of the health benefits:

Beans are high in amino acids which is the building blocks of protein.

Beans consist of Antioxidants that stabilizes the metabolism.

Beans contain Folate that makes healthy Red Blood corpuscles.

Consumption of beans helps in lowering Blood Pressure and Cholesterol.

A research study found out that it could lower the risk of some types of cancer, though not verified in reality.

WHEN TO AVOID:

Though we need to eat beans, its better to know when to avoid beans

If you are prone to Allergy, when you are allergic to a particular type of beans, beware when you consume any other types.

Some varieties of beans are toxic to humans as it contains lectin. Hence beans should be boiled completely in order to remove lectin, and half cooked beans are mostly not good for health as it may result in digestion problem as well.

Bacterial infection from bean sprouts could sometimes result in death.

Interesting facts about National Eat Your Beans Day:

Know some facts about Beans and Beans Day;

• Beans are from flowering plant family named Fabaceae.
• The word “bean” reported to have have existed since before the 12th century.
• Commonly used beans are originated from Americas
• beans are actually a summer crop that needs warm temperatures to grow.
• The total maturity of a bean crop is from 55 to 60 days.
• Indigenous people of North America hailed beans as one of the “three sisters” with the other two being winter squash and Maize.
• The custom of Broad beans deposited with the dead in ancient Egypt was a common practice.
• The oldest-known domesticated beans in the Americas were discovered in an archaeological site in Peru.
• While exploring Bahamas, Christoper Colombus found beans growing in fields.
• Native Americans customarily grew them along with corn and squash so that corn sticks may act as a support element for the beans.
• bush bean becomes more practical for commercial production in recent times as it does not need any physical support.
• Of all the varieties, Soybeans consist of all nine types of amino acids that are essential for human body.
• In June 2011, contaminated fenugreek sprouts imported from Egypt to Germany was identified as the source of the 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak where 3,785 cases and 45 deaths had been reported by the end of the outbreak.
• India ranks No.1 In production of commercial and domestic beans followed by Canada and Myanmar ranking second and third places.
• USA ranks 10^th in overall production in the world.

History of National Eat Your Beans Day:

The exact origin of National Eat Your Beans Day is not revealed whereas the origin of Beans and its usage dates back to as early as seventh millennium BCE. Fava Beans were grown in Thailand in the Seventh millennium BCE and were deposited with dead in Ancient Egypt marking its earliest traces in historical records. Due to the abundance of proteins, beans are still a widely used food even today.

Initially Five kinds of beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples. Those are namely common beans (P. vulgaris) , sieva beans (P. lunatus), as well as the less widely distributed teparies (P.acutifolius), scarlet runner beans (P.coccineus) and polyanthus beans.