adzuki bean
noun
variants
or azuki bean
: an annual bushy leguminous plant (Vigna angularis synonym Phaseolus angularis) widely grown in Japan and China for its seeds which are used as food and to produce a flour
also
: its seed
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In addition to being high in protein, adzuki beans are extraordinarily high in potassium, providing 610 milligrams (mg) per half-cup serving.
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Jennifer Lefton, Verywell Health, 20 Oct. 2025
Key Ingredients: Stone crop, rice, adzuki bean flour How to Use: Pour a small amount of product into your palm and add a few drops of water, then mix until the formula transforms into the foam.
—Emily Orofino, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
Part of this is a difference in taste: Asian confections tend to be less sweet and favor dense, chewy ingredients — adzuki beans, chickpeas, lotus root — that Westerners generally associate with savory food.
—Wei Tchou, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
View this post on Instagram Gemstone-like adzuki bean sweets made by fourth generation candy makers in Misugi, Japan.
—Laura Studarus, Marie Claire, 5 July 2019
Cowpeas or crowder peas, mung and adzuki beans belong to the genus Vigna, fava and dolichos lablab beans to the Vicia genus; soybeans to the Glycine genus, garbanzos or chickpeas to Cicer, for instance.
—Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 14 Mar. 2018
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Jennifer Lefton, Verywell Health, 20 Oct. 2025
Key Ingredients: Stone crop, rice, adzuki bean flour How to Use: Pour a small amount of product into your palm and add a few drops of water, then mix until the formula transforms into the foam.
—Emily Orofino, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
Part of this is a difference in taste: Asian confections tend to be less sweet and favor dense, chewy ingredients — adzuki beans, chickpeas, lotus root — that Westerners generally associate with savory food.
—Wei Tchou, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
View this post on Instagram Gemstone-like adzuki bean sweets made by fourth generation candy makers in Misugi, Japan.
—Laura Studarus, Marie Claire, 5 July 2019
Cowpeas or crowder peas, mung and adzuki beans belong to the genus Vigna, fava and dolichos lablab beans to the Vicia genus; soybeans to the Glycine genus, garbanzos or chickpeas to Cicer, for instance.
—Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 14 Mar. 2018
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“Adzuki bean.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adzuki%20bean. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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