It is strictly a matter of personal taste. ;) There have been polls on the question in the past and they pretty much come out even-steven for frozen and canned. Personally, even though freezing is easier, our house much prefers the canned green bean taste. Try some both ways and see which you prefer.

Dave

Which keeps longer? Canned, I would assume.

Canned on both accounts.

Canned definitely store longer - years longer. Most any canned food will store much longer than and frozen food
Which of the store bought do you prefer canned or frozen?

Dave

I prefer frozen beans as far as taste and texture but certainly canned beans will store much longer without a decrease in quality. I usually eat my green beans up fairly quickly so a long storage isn't a problem!

I prefer canned, but that is what I was raised on. I like my beans well done, not still crunchy. They are fully cooked out of the can so I only need to heat them up. Frozen ones need to be cooked, so I have to make sure to boil them for about 10 mn before they are the way I like.

I prefer many of my veggies frozen, but beans, carrots and potatoes I prefer canned. I also prefer tomatoes canned, but that is for the ease in use (don't have to thaw them) - and so there is more room in the freezer for things I don't like canned.

I don't like them either canned or frozen, so we pickle our excess snap beans. We love them pickled, and despite me being told: 'you are growing too many beans', there never seems to be enough dilly beans jars in a given year.

For me it is a different story with snow peas (edible pea pods peas). I like the way they taste and their texture after thawing, so I freeze a bunch of those. Not as good as fresh, but the loss of flavor is minimal (to me). As has been mentioned, it is a personal preference, advantages and disadvantages in both.

Personally, I prefer frozen over canned.

Pickled or fresh cooked here.

Bejay

No contest....canned!

jude

If we're voting, I love fresh or canned green beans, thumbs down on frozen.

On the other hand, I love fresh or frozen peas, and can't enjoy those canned.

Another "Canned, Hands Down" vote here.
It's what I grew up with and I just don't like the taste or texture of frozen.
That said, I've been known to toss the last few from the garden into the freezer and use in a vegetable (read: "flavorful") soup.

I do agree that it's a matter of personal taste and you should try both before deciding. You don't want quarts and quarts of something you don't like!!

Deanna

If I put up all the green beans I harvest in the freezer, it would fill a freezer. I started canning them out of necessity for space. I like the taste of canned, and frozen or fresh. Depends on how I am fixing them which I prefer. I do love the convenience of canned green beans. It's not a long cook time on the stove before we can eat them if I am doing a kettle of them with ham. Just the usual 'safety' time I do with all my low-acid canned veggies before we eat them.

I prefer them frozen but DH wants mushy canned ones cooked to death like his mother made...not home canned either, he wants them from the store and still simmered half the day.