Mock turtle soup from the time of the personal union between the Kingdom of Hanover and the Kingdom of Great Britain. While green sea turtle was popular for soup making in many countries, U.S. recipes included many other local species. Soup made from snapping turtles is still available in parts of the country. Similarly mock turtle soup recipes have a variety of substitute meats. Beside organ meats like the British recipes, recipes in the U.S. often use stewing beef or ground beef but may call for alligator. The Campbell Soup Company once produced canned mock turtle soup made of calf's head. In a
Black turtle bean for seasoning (known as "sopa negra", black soup), as a broth ("caldo de frijol", bean broth) or to season or color other dishes (aforementioned "gallo pinto", for example). Samples of black turtle beans were reported in 2006 to contain total anthocyanins in their dried seed coats of 0−2.78 mg/g. Black turtle bean varieties (cultivars) include: Black turtle bean The black turtle bean is a small, shiny variety of the common bean ("Phaseolus vulgaris"), especially popular in Latin American cuisine, though it can also be found in Cajun and Creole cuisines of south Louisiana. Like most common beans, they are native