After decades of being forgotten in the shadows, this time might just be the era of the beans. Apparently, over the past five years, there has been a 73% increase in bean and lentil consumption in the United States. This would translate to 14.5 pounds of bean consumption per capita. Amazing!
Beans have notoriously played supporting roles on dinner plates, cast as a food to be tolerated or choked down in the name of healthfulness. US children gave legumes such poor reviews that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in June 2018 created a whole web page devoted to creative ways to try and get kids to eat their beans. “Many kids hate the mushy texture of beans,” the global organization stated. Their bad reputation has been immortalized in children’s literature, too: In 1993, author Rita Schweitz published “I Hate Lima Beans.” That specific bean variety was pummeled again in 2001, when Dan Yaccarino published “The Lima Bean Monster.”
But the era of the spurned bean appears to have ended—at least for now.
More details about this over at Quartz.
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Beans, beans, the Miracle Fruit!The more you eat,The more you toot!The more you toot,The better you feel;So eat your beansWith every meal!
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