'Thinking beyond the can': Mainstreaming UK-grown beans in healthy meals (BeanMeals)

“超越罐头”：将英国种植的豆类纳入健康膳食的主流（BeanMeals）英国食品系统面临的一个关键挑战是，如何朝着更健康、对环境影响更小的饮食方向发展，同时加强地方和国家企业的发展。然而，减少高脂肪、高糖和高盐食品的消费需要整个食品系统的协调行动。BeanMeals将直接解决这一问题，研究如何通过使用更健康的食材、新的公共采购做法和更多的本地产品，在机构餐饮和家庭烹饪的系统创新的基础上改变食品体系。从食物开始，通过供应链回溯到种植者，研究将基于“从农场到农场”的概念（对生产主义“从农场到餐桌”范式的颠覆）。它的特色食物是由两种快速烹饪的海军豆品种（“Capulet”和“Godiva”）制成的，这两种豆是华威大学最近根据英国的生长条件开发的。它也适用于各种容易准备的机构和家庭烹饪的低脂肪，盐和糖含量的食物。凯普莱特的生产准备与商业合作伙伴扩大规模，增加英国的产量将减少从北美进口的干海军豆（用于罐装烤豆）的数量，从而减少运输的环境成本，并为当地企业带来新的机会。增加英国豆粕生产和消费的环境效益包括减少后续作物的肥料需求（豆类是一种固定氮的轮作作物），从而减少与生产相关的温室气体，减少一氧化二氮的排放和农业径流；通过更高效的加工（豆子煮得更快），减少了水和能源的使用；通过更多的本地供应链和更少的干豆进口，减少了运输排放。BeanMeals旨在开发和分析系统创新（即需要多方合作的创新），通过使用英国种植的海军豆来减少机构和家庭烹饪中HFSS的消耗。研究将开发一种新的“从叉子到农场”的饮食变化系统创新范式，这可以被视为“逆向工程”：从准备和消费餐食开始，通过“缺失的中间环节”（即零售商/批发商、分销商、二级和一级加工商以及相关物流）向后工作，直到种植者。通过在其研究设计中跨越具有创新主题的研究学科，我们将确定如何最好地实现系统创新，并分析转换后的系统对健康、环境和企业的影响。该项目将以莱斯特郡为中心，并与莱斯特郡议会（LCC）共同召集的一系列当地合作伙伴共同设计，包括莱斯特市议会、生命之粮以及莱斯特和莱斯特郡企业伙伴关系（LLEP），他们都看到了提高当地健康、环境和企业成果的潜力。英国层面的潜在利益已被具有国家职权范围的组织确定，包括Defra， FSA， NFU， WWF和CIWF。

'Thinking beyond the can': Mainstreaming UK-grown beans in healthy meals (BeanMeals)A key challenge for the UK food system is how to move towards healthier diets with lower environmental impact while also enhancing local and national enterprise. However, moderating consumption of foods that are high in fats, sugar and salt (HFSS) requires coordinated action across the food system.BeanMeals will directly address this by researching how to transform the food system based on systemic innovation in institutional catering and home-cooking by using healthier ingredients, new public procurement practises and more-local products. By starting with the meal and working backwards through the supply chain to the grower, research will be based on a 'fork-to-farm' concept (a disruption of the productionist 'farm-to-fork' paradigm). It will feature meals made from two quick-cooking navy bean varieties ('Capulet' and 'Godiva') which have recently been developed at the University of Warwick for UK growing conditions. it is also suitable for a wide range of easily-prepared institutional- and home-cooked meals with lower fat, salt and sugar content. Capulet production is poised to scale with commercial partners, and increased UK production would reduce the amount of dry navy beans (used in tinned baked beans) imported from North America, thereby lessening the environmental costs of shipping and opening new local enterprise opportunities. Environmental benefits of increased production and consumption of UK bean-based meals include reduced fertilizer demand on subsequent crops (beans are a N-fixing rotation crop), and hence reduced GHG related to its manufacture and reduced N2O emissions and runoff from agriculture; reduced water and energy use from more efficient processing (the beans cook quickly); and reduced transport emissions from having more local supply chains and lower importation of dry beans.BeanMeals aims to develop and analyse systemic innovations (i.e. innovations that require collaboration between multiple actors) for reducing HFSS consumption in institutional and home-cooking by using UK-grown navy beans. Research will develop a new 'fork-to-farm' paradigm of the systemic innovation of dietary change, which can be seen as 'reverse-engineering': start with preparation and consumption of the meal, and work backwards though the 'missing middle' (i.e. the retailers/wholesalers, distributors, secondary and primary processors, and the associated logistics), to the grower. By crossing research disciplines with innovation topics in its research design, we will determine both how best to bring about systemic innovation, and analyse the health, environment and enterprise impacts of the transformed system. The project will be centred on Leicestershire, and has been co-designed with a range of local partners co-convened by Leicestershire County Council (LCC), including Leicester City Council, Food for Life and the Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP), who all see the potential for enhanced outcomes for local health, environment and enterprise. The potential benefits at the UK-level have been identified by organisations with a national remit, including Defra, FSA, NFU, WWF and CIWF.