Provided is a legume inspecting method and a legume food manufacturing method for enabling a state of an inner part of a legume to be inspected with high accuracy without destroying the legume. The legume inspecting method includes a step of irradiating a legume which has not been wet-heated with X-rays, and acquiring X-ray image information from X-rays which have passed through the legume, and a step of inspecting an inner part of the legume based on the X-ray image information.
