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Peas, lentils, fava, and garbanzo beans originated within the Middle East and western regions of Asia. They have been a substantial part of the diet in these regions for millennia (Ladizinsky 1979; Tanno and Willcox 2006; Singh 2017). These bean types were traded along both the Eastern and Western trade routes resulting in general distribution throughout all of Europe and subsequently introduced to North America. Mung beans are commonly recognized to have originated from the Indian subcontinent of Asia (Prasad et al. 2016). These beans received broad‐based usage throughout South East Asian regions. Further, a diverse class of cowpeas (i.e., vigna, termed gram) were similarly domesticated in India and subsequently fully adopted within Africa.

Common beans are distinctive among a diverse and broad class of legumes. Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), the recognized authority in establishing modern taxonomy, observed these plants and designated them as Phaseolus vulgaris L. in his classic descriptive binomial genus and species taxonomy (the letter “L.” indicates the designation was original to Linnaeus). ssss1 shows most common beans and pulses in the Fabaceae family.