Beans are one of the most nutrient rich, fiber rich, absolute bundles of joy for your body. While they may not be exactly a bundle of joy for those around you (ahem, excuse you) inside they're far better, and good news(!) those bean-farts go away once your gut is used to beans!
I don't care who you are or where you are, you can use some more beans.
What type? Whichever you prefer and have access to!
If you can have them all by all means, have them all!
So should you have canned beans or dry beans that you cook yourself?
Personally I prefer to cook my own beans so they can absorb all the seasonings I use, and so they aren't so stinky and soft.
But what does the science say?
What is the cheapest, I want to buy as many beans as I can!
Well first off, if you're going to be eating beans it'll cost about 3x as much to eat them canned, more if you buy organic. So if you're a penny pincher, go for dry, it'll save you a few $$$ a week. Or, y'know, make another post on steemit if you really want those canned beans for some reason~
So how about nutrition?
Well if you're going to be eating canned beans you'll have lots of sodium that you really shouldn't be having, and no salt added varieties cost more generally, so that's something you should consider.
Then do you like the idea of rinsing your beans from a can? If so, dry may be best for you as you lose about 1/4th to 1/3rd of many vitamins if you drain your beans (thoroughly).
But lets be frank here,
Beans are so healthy that as long as you enjoy your beans canned or dry your meal with beans will be healthier than without them. So do what you like better, preferably get no salt added if from a can, and before you bash dry beans for being too hard to cook from dry, try it, it's really not and can produce some delicious beans that'll keep for about a week that simply need to be microwaved (or heated in a pot), hell you can even eat them cold(!), and you're set.
Image source #1
Image source to the last picture and the recipe for it, they should have used more onions and some bell peppers though!
All other images (and sources/citations) come from the study I cited before which can be found again here.