Just like beans, peas and lentils are packed with protein and antioxidant compounds. Why don’t we eat more of them?

Sonja Overhiser is a cookbook author and food writer, and founder of the award-winning website A Couple Cooks with her husband Alex. She is author of two cookbooks, A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes to ...

and peas. Beans grow in pods or capsules that develop from flowers. They are available dry, canned, or frozen. They differ nutritionally from green beans or wax beans where a person eats the ...