Notes on botany, cultivation, food value, and commercial production. Purdue University. Cultivated as a vegetable and used green or dried, fresh or canned, and for stock feed. feeding value of broadbeans is high, considered in some areas superior to field peas or other legumes. Broadbean has been considered as a meat extender or substitute and as a skimmilk substitute. Sometimes grown for green manure, but more generally for stock feed. Largeseeded cvs used as a vegetable, and frequently grown as a homegarden crop, and for canning. One of the most important winter crops for human consumption in the middle East. Roast seed are eaten like peanuts in India.

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