{"id":47226,"date":"2024-09-25T08:38:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T06:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.axfoundation.se\/?post_type=project&p=47226"},"modified":"2025-03-31T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T08:59:39","slug":"more-legumes-on-the-plate","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.axfoundation.se\/en\/projects\/more-legumes-on-the-plate","title":{"rendered":"More Legumes on the Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Legumes are cultivated on only around two percent of the arable land in Sweden, despite their many benefits.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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The Issue<\/h2>\n
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Legumes are cultivated on only around two percent of the arable land in Sweden, despite their numerous taste, health, climate, and agricultural benefits. Moreover, the majority of the harvest is used as animal feed rather than food. The Swedish-grown beans, lentils, and peas that are ready to eat often have to take a detour abroad, as Sweden lacks large-scale processing facilities. These transports double the climate footprint, and since the added value mainly occurs abroad, profitability is hampered. This, of course, affects the willingness to grow legumes. Legumes also offer significant health advantages. According to EAT Lancet<\/a>, quadrupling our legume consumption would be beneficial for the health.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Our Solution<\/h2>\n
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The project\u2019s goal is to develop tasty and accessible products and recipes that fully utilize the potential of legumes, as well as to increase the processing of legumes in Sweden. This way, a larger portion of legume production can end up on the plate, while also potentially increasing the margins for primary producers. A wide range of stakeholders are collaborating to make processed legumes more available to the industry and simultaneously increase demand for these products. Increased production and consumption of legumes would simply benefit the environment, health, and Swedish farmers.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Project Goals<\/h2>\n
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