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Ready Black-Eyed Beans — Steam-Cooked, Nothing Added (180g)
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Product Description
Product Description
The bean you open, not the bean you plan
Mavromatika, black-eyed beans, are the quickest of the Greek pulses and the least demanding. 3 Alfa steams them and seals them with nothing else in the bag. No water, no brine, no salt, no preservatives, no colourings. The ingredient list is one line long: 100% black-eyed beans. What you open is a bean that has already been cooked properly and is waiting.
Steam cooking is the reason they behave the way they do. The skin stays intact, the bean holds its shape, and there is no cooking liquid to drain, so they never take on that soft, waterlogged texture of beans sold in brine. The taste is earthy with a faint sweetness and a clean savoury finish, and because no salt was ever added, the seasoning is entirely yours to decide.
The label is where this product earns its place in a weekly routine. Black-eyed beans are high in protein, at 9.4g per 100g, which is around 17g in the full bag, and they are salt-free, with nothing added and therefore nothing to remove. They are a source of fibre and a source of potassium at 415mg per 100g. This is the bag you keep for the lunch you did not plan.
How to use it
- Straight from the bag: they are already cooked. Open it and eat them.
- In a salad jar with vegetables, the office lunch that survives a morning in a bag.
- In soup: add them to hot water with a vegetable stock cube and your spices.
- As a side: warm them for two minutes in a pan.
- Never microwave the bag itself. Empty the beans into a suitable dish first, then heat.
Nutritional Components
Nutritional Components
One ingredient, and the label proves it.
Most cooked beans on a shelf sit in water or brine, which means salt, a liquid to drain, and a softer bean. These are steam-cooked with nothing added at all. The ingredient list is one line long, and that single fact is what produces every number below.
What the bag actually gives you:
- High in protein: 9.4g per 100g, around 17g in the full 180g bag, entirely from the beans.
- Salt-free: 0g. Nothing was added, so there is nothing to remove. The seasoning is yours to decide.
- Source of fibre: 4.3g per 100g, around 7.7g in the full bag. The EU daily reference intake for an adult is 25g.
- Source of potassium: 415mg per 100g, around 21% of the EU reference intake.
- Steamed, not boiled in brine: the skin stays intact, and there is no cooking liquid to drain, which is why these hold up cold in a salad.
- No preservatives, no colourings: the bag is sealed in a protective atmosphere, and that alone carries the shelf life.
Average values per 100g:
- Energy: 601 kJ / 142 kcal
- Fat: 0.9 g, of which saturates: 0.3 g
- Carbohydrate: 22.1 g, of which sugars: 0.9 g
- Fibre: 4.3 g
- Protein: 9.4 g
- Salt: 0 g
- Potassium: 415 mg
Per 120g portion: 721 kJ / 171 kcal. The bag contains around 1.5 portions.
Ingredients: 100% black-eyed beans, steam-cooked. No allergens.
With a single plant ingredient and nothing else, these beans are suitable for vegan and vegetarian cooking.
Useful Information
Useful Information
Storage guide: a cooked bean that lives in the cupboard, until you open it.
The beans are steam-cooked and sealed in a protective atmosphere, with no water and no preservative in the bag. That is what keeps them stable for 18 months at room temperature. Once the seal is broken, the protective atmosphere is gone and the beans behave like any freshly cooked pulse: they go in the fridge.
How to store it correctly:
- Before opening: a dry cupboard, away from direct light. No refrigeration is needed.
- Never microwave the bag: this pack must not go into a microwave, not even opened. Empty the beans into a suitable dish first, then heat.
- Warming them: two minutes in a pan is enough. They are already cooked, so you are warming them, not cooking them.
- After opening: keep the beans in the fridge and eat them within 3 days.
Freshness timeline:
- Unopened: 18 months from production. The date is printed on the bag.
- Opened and refrigerated: up to 3 days. Cover them or transfer them to a sealed container.
- Warmed: eat straight away. There is no reason to reheat a bean twice.
Product details:
- Format: sealed bag, around 1.5 portions, cooked and ready to eat
- Net weight: 180g
- Origin: Athens, Greece
- Producer: 3 Alfa
- Allergens: none
- Suitable for: vegan and vegetarian diets
- Shelf life: 18 months
Why there is no water in the bag
Almost every cooked bean you can buy is packed in liquid, because liquid is cheap and it does the preserving. The cost is paid by the bean: it absorbs salt, it softens, and you pour half the pack down the sink. Steam cooking removes the liquid from the equation entirely. What is left in the bag is the bean and nothing else, which is why the salt figure is zero and why these hold their shape cold, in a salad, straight from the pack.
A cooked pulse with an empty label, which in this category is harder than it sounds.
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