Fibre-rich, with fewer farts: How the underrated mungbean could improve food security (and post-bean bloat)

Fibre-rich, with fewer farts: How the underrated mungbean could improve food security (and post-bean bloat)

Photo credit: Natalie Parletta

They are one of the easier legumes to digest and fetch a higher crop price than Australian wheat, yet mung beans are not mainstream in the western world. But, while the vigna radiata has been nourishing populations across India and Asia for millennia, in recent decades enterprising scientists have started investigating the legume’s potential to improve food security and farmers’ incomes.

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Published by The Guardian.

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