Beans & Legumes

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Plant Academy: The Cookbook: Plant-based techniques & recipes for creative cooking

By Lauren Lovatt

Published 2025

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Beans have become globally recognized as a food for the future. During the UN’s Global Innovation Hub at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the SDG2 Hub officially launched the Beans is How coalition, with the aim of doubling bean consumption by 2028 and encouraging every restaurant to offer a bean dish so they are just as common as fish and meat options. The benefit of beans reaches far beyond their flavour, they also contain a huge amount of fibre and fix nitrogen in the soil for the planet.
Long gone are the days when beans were deemed boring. Now, in the UK, beans are bouncing off the shelves and brands such as Bold Bean Co. are rebranding beans and making them the hot new thing we all want to buy and cook with.