Black bean commonly refers to:
- Black turtle bean, a variety of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in Latin American cuisine
Other edible seeds
- Black adzuki bean, a variety of adzuki bean in Korean cuisine
- Black gram (Vigna mungo), a variety of gram (lentil) in South Asian cuisine
- Black soybean, in East Asian cuisine
- Fermented black beans (douchi) used in Chinese cuisine
- Kenyan black bean (Lablab purpureus), used in Kenyan cuisine
Plants
- Castanospermum australe, also known as Moreton Bay Chestnut, a rainforest and ornamental tree named for its large seeds which are poisonous raw, but have been processed into an edible flour by Indigenous Australians