Can dogs eat Green beans?
Green beans（いんげん）
Safe to feed
A pod vegetable — a legume, but nearly as light to use as leafy greens.
Cook first
Feed this food cooked.
23 kcal per 100 g
What kind of food is this?
A bean vegetable eaten pod and all. Per 100g: 23kcal, 2.4g fiber, and 50mg calcium.
Because the pods are picked before the beans mature, it has much less protein and fat than soybeans or edamame.
"Bean" does not always mean high protein — green beans are the type that makes it easy to add fiber and minerals as an everyday vegetable. A food that shows clearly how roles differ within the legume family.
How to serve
Cook before use.
Nutrition
Green beans (per 100 g, raw)
Japan's Standard Tables of Food Composition (8th ed.)
| Energy | 23 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 1.8 g |
| Fat | 0.1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 5.1 g |
| Calcium | 50 mg |
| Phosphorus | 41 mg |
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| Fiber | 2.4 g |
|---|---|
| Moisture | 92.2 g |
| Sodium | 1 mg |
| Potassium | 260 mg |
| Magnesium | 23 mg |
| Iron | 0.7 mg |
| Zinc | 0.3 mg |
| Copper | 0.06 mg |
| Iodine | 0 µg |
| Selenium | 0 µg |
| Manganese | 0.33 mg |
| Vitamin A | 49 µg |
| Vitamin D | 0 µg |
| Vitamin E | 0.2 mg |
| Vitamin B1 | 0.06 mg |
| Vitamin B12 | 0 µg |
| Vitamin C | 8 mg |
| EPA | − |
| DHA | − |
| Alpha-linolenic acid | − |
"−" means the item is not listed in the source table (it does not mean zero).
In food-energetics terms
In food energetics this is classified as "neutral." It neither warms nor cools the body.
(Food energetics is a long-standing idea of supporting the body through everyday meals. Treat it as one extra hint alongside the nutrition numbers.)
How much for your dog?
Get daily estimates from weight and activity level.