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

“Thinking Beyond the Can”：将英国种植的豆类纳入健康膳食的主流（豆餐）英国食品系统面临的一个关键挑战是如何转向更健康的饮食，降低对环境的影响，同时加强地方和国家企业。但是，减少高脂高糖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、新的公共采购系统和更多的本地产品，在机构餐饮和家庭烹饪的系统创新基础上改造食品系统。通过从膳食开始并通过供应链向后工作到种植者，研究将基于“叉到农场”的概念（破坏生产主义的“农场到叉”范式）。它将以两种快速烹饪的海军豆品种（“Capulet”和“Godiva”）制成的膳食为特色，这两种豆是最近在沃里克大学为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膳食，脂肪，盐和糖含量较低。Capulet的生产准备与商业合作伙伴扩大规模，英国产量的增加将减少从北美进口的干海军豆（用于罐装烘焙豆）的数量，从而降低运输的环境成本，并开辟新的当地企业机会。英国豆粕产量和消费量增加的环境效益包括减少后续作物的肥料需求（豆类是一种固氮轮作作物），因此减少了与其制造有关的温室气体，减少了农业的一氧化二氮排放和径流;通过更有效的加工减少了水和能源的使用（豆子煮得很快）;通过更多的本地供应链和更少的干豆进口来减少运输排放。BeanMeals旨在开发和分析系统创新（即需要多个参与者之间合作的创新）通过使用英国种植的菜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例，这可以被视为“逆向工程”：从膳食的准备和消费开始，通过“缺失的中间环节”（即零售商/批发商、分销商、二级和初级加工商以及相关的物流）逆向工作，直到种植者。通过在研究设计中交叉研究学科与创新主题，我们将确定如何最好地实现系统创新，并分析转型系统对健康，环境和企业的影响。该项目将以莱斯特郡为中心，并与莱斯特郡理事会（LCC）共同召集的一系列当地合作伙伴共同设计，包括莱斯特市理事会，生命食品以及莱斯特和莱斯特郡企业伙伴关系（LLEP），他们都看到了增强当地健康，环境和企业成果的潜力。英国一级的潜在利益已由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.