The Untapped Potential of Mung Beans for Alternative Proteins
A comprehensive exploration of the enormous opportunities and solvable challenges in utilising mung beans for alternative proteins.
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Crop diversification is an essential component of creating a more secure, sustainable, and just food supply—and perhaps no crop is better-positioned to thrive in Asia’s changing protein landscape than the humble mung bean.
Mung beans have far lower allergenicity than either soy or wheat, are among the most heat-resilient of all legumes, and are celebrated in both “great traditions” of Asian medicine, making them a familiar and broadly appealing ingredient in many cultures. Additionally, processing innovations for mung beans—which possess properties to achieve the desired taste and texture profile needed for many plant-based applications using less-intensive processing methods—could help products more easily earn the “clean label” status that many consumers say they want.
But unlocking this powerhouse ingredient’s full potential will require overcoming decades of R&D neglect and complex supply-chain challenges. This important new report co-authored by GFI APAC experts Jennifer Morton and Wasamon Nutakul, Ph.D. provides a roadmap for doing just that.
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