🟫 Great Northern Beans Fiber Calculator
Calculate total fiber, daily value %, soluble & insoluble fiber by serving size
| Serving Size | Weight | Total Fiber | Soluble | Insoluble | % Daily Value* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/4 cup dry | 46g / 1.6 oz | 4.8g | 1.6g | 3.2g | 17% |
| 1/2 cup dry | 92g / 3.2 oz | 9.6g | 3.2g | 6.4g | 34% |
| 1/2 cup cooked | 89g / 3.1 oz | 6.2g | 2.1g | 4.1g | 22% |
| 1 cup cooked | 177g / 6.2 oz | 12.4g | 4.1g | 8.3g | 44% |
| 1 cup dry | 185g / 6.5 oz | 19.4g | 6.4g | 13.0g | 69% |
| 1 can (15 oz) | 425g / 15 oz | 19.2g | 6.3g | 12.9g | 69% |
| 100g cooked | 100g / 3.5 oz | 7.0g | 2.3g | 4.7g | 25% |
| 100g dry | 100g / 3.5 oz | 10.5g | 3.5g | 7.0g | 38% |
| Measurement | Grams | Ounces | Fiber (g) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 cup cooked | 177g | 6.2 oz | 12.4g |
| 1/2 cup cooked | 89g | 3.1 oz | 6.2g |
| 1/4 cup cooked | 44g | 1.6 oz | 3.1g |
| 1 cup dry | 185g | 6.5 oz | 19.4g |
| 1/2 cup dry | 92g | 3.2 oz | 9.6g |
| 1/4 cup dry | 46g | 1.6 oz | 4.8g |
| 1 can (15 oz / 425g) | ~370g drained | 13 oz drained | 19.2g |
| Daily Fiber Goal | Cups Needed (cooked) | Grams of Beans | Cans Needed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21g (Women 50+) | 1.7 cups | ~299g | 0.81 cans |
| 25g (Women) | 2.0 cups | ~355g | 0.96 cans |
| 28g (FDA DV) | 2.3 cups | ~400g | 1.08 cans |
| 30g (Men 50+) | 2.4 cups | ~428g | 1.16 cans |
| 38g (Men) | 3.1 cups | ~543g | 1.46 cans |
Big northern beans are a type of white beans, that have a gentle nutty taste and tender smooth feel. Compared to navy beans they show a bit bigger and broad, similar to lima beans, while navy beans look more like small rolls. In great northern beans you find also extra nutty tenderness compared to the gentle navy beans, and their taste stands slightly more than that of navy beans, even so stay less strong than with cannellini beans.
One calls them “average beans” and in science they belong to Phaseolus vulgaris. To that same group belong red kidney beans, black beans, pinto beans, pink beans and navy beans. Actually the word “white beans” can relate to navy beans, great northern beans, cannellini beans or baby lima bean, so easily one mixes them up and hardly tells one from the other.
About Great Northern Beans
In soups and stews commonly one uses great northern beans. During cooking they well keep form and absorb the flavors from other ingredients, so perfectly work for traditional French casserole. In baked beans, in jams, in pastas, in sauces or in white chili they also well work.
When one mixes them in blended soups, they well thicken the texture. Soup from broccoli and cauliflower, added with a bit of milk, parmesan and great northern beans, mixed together, result thick and creamy without using heavy cream. Similarly happens four soup in baked potato style.
The skin of great northern beans is entirely edible. It does give the bean nice textured contrast to the creamy inside, when one cooks them in a jar. In bean burgers one can swap them with cannellini beans.
Recipe for brothy great northern beans with garlic, onion and lemon bark presents a simple and delicious way to prepare dry beans. Well they taste also cooked with hams on the stove, what gives wet, tasty and creamy white bean. Before cooking one should soak the beans during eight hours, later use a pressure cooker for twenty minutes or boil in the pot one and half until two hours.
Beans from dried form turn out much better than canned and more cost-efficient. In a slow cooker cooked they result in nutritious brothy, creamy bean dish, that one can top with a dose of olive oil and some shavings of salty parmesan.
Canned beans already are cooked. Extra cooking only softens them. When you lack a whole pound of dry great northern beans, white beans or navy beans well replace.
In Australia cannellini beans probably are the nearest choice in the majority of supermarkets. Great northern beans can cook with tomatoes, be used in recipe for chickpea dip as replacement or blended in paste similar to hummus.
The plant gives many pods long each five inches. Every pod carries five until six big white beans. They have a middle oval form and outside white orcreamy color.
One cup of great northern beans has roughly 210 calories and about 12 grams of fiber.
