Are You Chasing the “Healthiest” Bean and Missing What Matters?

Want to eat more legumes but don’t know where to start? How to choose what to buy, make sense of canned versus dried, and avoid getting stuck in the details.

I eat quite a lot of legumes these days. But put me in front of a supermarket wall of kidney beans, chickpeas, lentils, cannellini beans and half a dozen varieties I barely recognise, and I still have a nagging sense that there must be a right one to buy.

What I cook depends more on what happens to be sitting in my kitchen cabinets than any culinary visi…