White Kidney Beans are white coloured beans shaped like a kidney. They are closely related to red kidney beans. They have a somewhat milder flavour than the red beans, with a hint of slight sweetness to the taste. Like red kidney beans, they are about �½ inch long (1 cm) dried. Their shape is only vaguely suggestive of a kidney, and even that tends to vanish as the beans plump up through soaking and cooking. And, like red kidney beans, they have the same creamy texture when cooked and mashed.