Generic - Brown Beans - No carbs ? Mistake

Oflamez
Oflamez Posts: 43 Member
edited November 26 in Food and Nutrition
Generic - Brown Beans, Cooked, 300 gram calories 243 protein 22 carbs 0 fat 2 sugar 0 fiber 19


This must be a mistake, I think brown beans got significantly many carbs, since this was inaccurate I simply used
Homemade - Nigerian Brown Beans, which is obviously less accurate, the beans I had very simply brown regular looking beans.

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    There are a lot of terrible entries in the database. All database entries have been created by your fellow users, so some are accurate and some are not. I tend to skip anything with "generic" or "homemade" in the title. Instead I would find the name of the bean that I ate and log the raw weight of it.
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    Did your beans have a label at some point?
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    This sounds like navy beans which are white uncooked. They are frequently canned as baked beans.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Yes, don't use "generic" entries (or "homemade" entries either).

    The first question is what are "brown beans"? Google tells me the term is used for cowpeas (supposedly this is what the Nigerian brown beans are, and this seems to be a kind of black eyed pea?), a particular type of kidney bean, or pinto beans (likely among others) depending on where you are. I suppose some might use it for baked beans (although those are cooked with other ingredients that must be included).

    If you figure that out you can probably find a good entry for it (better to weigh dry and use that entry), but if not a good source for nutrition information (make your own entry) is here: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/

    For example, 100 g of Beans, pinto, mature seeds, raw=347 cal, 21.42 g protein, 1.23 g fat, 62.55 g carbs, 15.5 g fiber, and 2.11 g sugar. This is consistent with the MFP entry for same (but the MFP is rounded, of course).
  • Oflamez
    Oflamez Posts: 43 Member
    thank you guys now I understand it, I used pinto beans and will try to use the verified entries with the green check sign. I used pinto beans as entry actually yes seeing the in google pics they are pinto beans exactly those. Was entirely weird how filling they were compared to the calories I wrongly entered.

    Problem solved :)
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    Mystery solved. Pinto beans are so cute uncooked and yes, they turn brown.
    MichiganBean_Pinto.png
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Pinto Beans - USDA...use USDA to tag stuff like this.

  • Oflamez
    Oflamez Posts: 43 Member
    jgnatca wrote: »
    Mystery solved. Pinto beans are so cute uncooked and yes, they turn brown.
    MichiganBean_Pinto.png

    :smiley:
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    Pinto Beans - USDA...use USDA to tag stuff like this.

    Great tip ! USDA and I get the accurate measures unless someone created USDA and typed in wrong values, and I see the green check is verified values
  • SimoneBee12
    SimoneBee12 Posts: 268 Member
    Not all of the entries that are verified are correct, there was a problem a few months ago, some of them were inaccurate. I can't give you an example, I don't remember. However I always check everything on the USDA website (Google USDA nutrient database, I'm on my phone so I can't link it). Especially things that are calorie dense, cucumbers I don't worry so much about.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Pintos are my favorite beans! Good for taco salads. <3
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