Q: What are lupini beans? I have eaten them on antipasto platters. I thought they were lima beans, but no. —Patricia Mack, East Brunswick, N.J. A: Lupin, also known as lupine or lupini beans ...

An ancient bean known as sweet lupin is creating new opportunities in Canada for high-protein, plant-based foods — including a vegan form of soft serve being sold at one of Winnipeg's most ...

Brightly colored lupin flowers may have been growing in your garden for years, but now products made from the plant's beans are showing up in the gluten-free aisle of the grocery store.

If you walk into a bar in Italy, you might be served a dish of salty, nutritious snacks: lupin beans, a legume that has been eaten around the Mediterranean and in parts of the Middle East and ...

Another factor making the lupin unique among legumes, writes food historian and University of the Pacific professor Ken Albala in Beans: A History (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017), is that native ...

Potentially poisonous ... lupin beans. They can also be eaten raw as a snack, but doctors say they must be treated first to remove dangerous levels of a toxic alkaloid. The warning comes after two ...

Protein Industries Canada is ramping up the production of the lupin bean making it a staple crop (along with pea and soy) for Canada's plant-based protein industry. With a high protein seed ...

Matthew Nelson received funding from Innovate UK to conduct this research while working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Three co-authors of the research are employed by biotech company ...