Do you know beans about beans?

1. A half-cup of dry beans contains as much protein as a 1-ounce serving of lean meat.

2. Of the 116 calories in a half-cup of dry beans, 22 come from fat.

3. Dry beans and canned beans contain the same amount of simple sugars (sucrose).

4. Dry beans are a poor source of methionine, an amino acid essential to nutrition.

5. The three things to look for when selecting dry beans are uniform color, uniform size and lack of defects such as pinholes in seed coats.

Answers: 1: true (7 grams); 2: false (0 fat); 3: false (canned, 4 percent; dry, less than 1 percent); 4: true; 5: true.