bean food product bean (whole or pieces) A bean substance is a substance made by processing seed from a bean plant. Damion Dooley Damion Dooley's note: This class is intended to provide the most generic reference to bean, as it does not imply any more information about the state of a bean - whether it is whole or in fragments, or fragments of several beans, whether it is dry, raw, or cooked etc. SIREN DB annotation: * seed (anatomical part) FOODON:03420155 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean