Bill who putters wrote:
Doug Freyburger wrote:

If you define it as the dried seeds from the pods, then only dried
beans, peas and lentils count. Because the fresh snow peas and string
beans are edible raw they would not count.

So time and dehydration effect the carb perception but I wonder about
the nutrition.

As the beans mature they concentrate their stored energy and also start
to dry. It's a matter of how their life cycle works.

I used to think of life force but I digress. Sort of
suggests that living plant life is lower carb and that seeds are rich in
carb issues. Bottom line living plants may be of more import for carb
counting folks.

That argument has both spiritual components that are matters of wide
disagreement and freshness that is widely agreed upon. I mostly discuss
spiritual issues on other newsgroups. Thor likes coffee. I've never
asked him why but it's long been clear that he enjoys it when it is
shared with him. The old tradition is that he likes dark beer. That's
higher in carb but Guinness isn't any higher in carb than most see
through beers so it's not all that bad to share a Guinness with Redbeard
every week or so.