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See Professor Julie Lovegrove introducing the project here:\u00a0Raising the Pulse with Professor Julie Lovegrove | University of Reading – YouTube<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Researchers and chefs at the University of Reading aim to encourage British consumers and food producers to switch to bread containing faba beans (commonly known as broad beans), making it healthier and less damaging to the environment.<\/p>\n

The \u00a32 million, three-year, publicly-funded \u2018Raising the Pulse\u2019 project has officially begun and is announced today (18 January 2023) in the\u00a0Nutrition Bulletin<\/em><\/a>\u00a0journal.<\/p>\n

Five teams of researchers within the University of Reading, along with members of the public, farmers, industry, and policy makers, are now working together to bring about one of the biggest changes to UK food in generations.<\/p>\n

This is by increasing pulses in the UK diet, particularly faba beans, due to their favourable growing conditions in the UK and the sustainable nutritional enhancement they provide.<\/p>\n

Despite being an excellent alternative to the ubiquitous imported soya bean, used currently in bread as an improver, the great majority of faba beans grown in the UK go to animal feed at present.<\/p>\n

Researchers are optimising the sustainability and nutritional quality of beans grown here, with a view to encouraging farmers to switch some wheat producing land to faba bean for human consumption.<\/p>\n

Faba beans are particularly high in easily digested protein, fibre, and iron, nutrients that can be low in UK diets. But the majority of people are not used to cooking and eating faba beans, which poses a major challenge.<\/p>\n

Professor Julie Lovegrove is leading the \u2018Raising the Pulse\u2019 research programme. She said: \u201cWe had to think laterally: What do most people eat and how can we improve their nutrition without them having to change their diets? The obvious answer is bread!<\/p>\n

\u201c96% of people in the UK eat bread, and 90% of that is white bread, which in most cases contains soya. We\u2019ve already performed some experiments and found that faba bean flour can directly replace imported soya flour and some of the wheat flour, which is low in nutrients. We can not only grow the faba beans here, but also produce and test the faba bean-rich bread, with improved nutritional quality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Raising the Pulse\u2019 is a multidisciplinary programme of research, funded by the UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, as part of their \u2018Transforming UK Food Systems\u2019 initiative.<\/p>\n

As well as consulting and working with members of disadvantaged communities, there will be studies using our novel foods at the University of Reading\u2019s students halls of residence and catering outlets.<\/p>\n

This links \u2018Raising the Pulse\u2019 with Matt Tebbit, who runs the University\u2019s catering service and leads the University\u2019s \u2018Menus for Change\u2019 research programme. He said: \u201cStudents will be asked to rate products made or enriched with faba bean, such as bread, flat bread, and hummus. They will be asked questions about how full they felt, for how long and their liking of the foods. It is hoped that faba bean will improve satiety, as well as providing enhanced nutritional benefits in products that are enjoyable to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before there are products to be tested, the beans must be grown, harvested and milled. \u2018Raising the Pulse\u2019 seeks to improve these stages as well. Researchers will be choosing or breeding varieties that are healthful as well as high yielding, working with the soil to improve yield via nitrogen fixing bacteria, mitigating environmental impacts of farming faba beans, planning for the changing climate, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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