Neither. A green bean is the whole bean. The pods inside the bean are not beans, they are pods, and they are what give the bean its distinctive flavour.
Harvest the pods when they are dry and brown and the seeds have dried and hardened. This is about 90-100 days from planting and before the pods have split. break open the pods and you have dried beans. Freezing beans for 4 hours before storage will kill any bugs of diseases.
String beans are seed pods. Green peas are often eaten with the pod on.
All beans come in pods, which can be opened to reveal the beans themselves. Some common beans that are sold still in pods are green beans (string beans), fava beans, garbanzo beans (chickpeas), and soy beans (edamame).
Green beans are unripe bean pods. When you eat green beans, you are eating beans, but they are still in the pod. EXACTLY u r still eating yummy beans! in a pod with the beans concealed inside!
All beans are flowering plants. The bean is the fruit.
I believe that you are in fact talking about green beans
Peas or beans
Those little green things in green beans that look like seeds - they are the immature seeds of the bean plant. So yes, they actually are seeds or beans if you rather. When you are eating green beans, you are eating the entire seed pods which contain the immature beans.
You probably mean to ask about Wax Beans, a type of string bean with yellow pods, very similar to Green Beans. The beans are picked while young, before the pods mature and dry. The whole pod is boiled and eaten. Numerous varieties of Dry Beans are left on the vine to mature. When the pods are dry, the beans are harvested by breaking open the dried pods. Only the beans from inside the pod are kept to be washed, soaked and boiled for food.
Green beans. The purple ones turn green when you cook them.
you pick pinto beans when the pods are full and anytime after if you want dried beans you can let them dry on the bush