Someone was selling "garden mix" sprouts which looked like the birds would love them, especially the large seed still attached. However I can't ID everything in the mix and there's nothing on the label.

So are these lentils?


Chickpeas/garbanzo beans? Mine are bigger when I soak them but I guess they could be another variety and I've never gotten them to sprout that far.


Mystery beans and more of the other 2 that I hadn't sorted out fully:


Are they sprouted far enough they'd be safe to feed animals irregardless of type of bean? They are being sold for human food. Would humans eat the bean part of the sprout raw if buying for themselves? Otherwise if they turn out to be unsafe at their current state I'm either pulling the sprouts off or just shoving them in some soil and making full size sprouts I can cut off the bean. If the other 2 are what I think they are I can feed as is but I'd have to spend time separating the other beans.

The pics are really blurry. Very hard to see, but the first ones look like lentils to me. The others I have no idea.

I'm no help, I'm afraid... except to suggest that you may be able to identify them by taste.

Like I know what any of those taste like. I have an aversion to vegetables and can't stand anything crunchy. I will only eat soup/stew where the vegetables are cooked to softness that tastes like all the rest of the soup.

For some reason taking pics under the bright plant light makes my camera worse not better unlike most.

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I think they are adzuki beans which would be safe. I will get better pics and there are sites with lists of beans/legumes and pics. Only problem is they are always dried in pics and chickpeas look quite different soaked up in water.