stink beans

Noun

stink bean (plural stink beans)

1. A tree (Parkia speciosa) that produces edible beans.
   • Parkia speciosa (common name: petai in Malay; twisted cluster bean or stink bean) is a tropical leguminous tree of the family of the Fabaceae, subfamily of the Mimosoideae. It is found in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and northern India, and the cooked beans are used in cooking, mainly in seafood...2008, Eric Frérot, Alain Velluz, Alain Bagnoud, Estelle Delort, “Analysis of the volatile constituents of cooked petai beans (Parkia speciosa) using high‐resolution GC/ToF–MS”, in Flavour and...

   Synonyms:

   bitter bean, stinky bean, twisted cluster bean

2. The bean seed of the plant, used as food.
   • As the name suggested, stink beans are rather unique because they have strong and distinctive bitter taste and pungent odour contributed by the presence of cyclic polysulfide compounds such as hexathionine, tetrathiane, triothiolane, pentathiopane, pentathiocane and tetrathiepane. Nevertheless...2020, Yoong-Kong How, Lee-Fong Siow, “Effects of convection-, vacuum- and freeze-drying on antioxidant, physicochemical properties, functional properties and storage stability of stink bean (Parkia...