Broad bean, known by the scientific name Vigna angularis, is also called rice bean, mungo bean, meal bean, and sweet bean.Broad beans are legume seeds, spherical or flattened round, slightly larger than yellow beans, sometimes resembling cashews, and also called meal beans.They are distributed in Hebei, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Yunnan provinces of China, with products also found in Vietnam.In Cantonese-speaking regions, they are referred to as white bean or rice bean.Mucuna pruriens is named white rice bean according to the Luchuan Materia Medica.
