All Pod Fruits, Tree Legumes and Legume Gums

Gathers the legumes that grow as trees and shrubs or are valued for their pods and gums rather than as dry beans. It includes carob and carob powder, mesquite bean and mesquite flour, honey locust, African locust bean, locust bean gum, guar bean and guar gum, kudzu, yeheb nut and ice cream bean. Within the Legumes and Legume Products subcategory it sits beside the groups Soybeans and Soy Products, Peanuts and Groundnuts, New World Beans, Asian and African Beans, Peas, Lentils, Chickpeas and Broad Beans, and each entry is placed in the one group whose description fits it best.