Lorraine Stevenson

Reading Time: 4 minutes You don’t need to eat a lot of beans to benefit from their nutritional qualities, research released at a recent health symposium here shows. Results of six clinical research trials released at Pulse Canada’s second annual food and health symposium show pulses can help ward off a range of chronic diseases. Regular consumption of pulses […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s good to promote health benefits and create new food products with pulses, but don’t forget the traditional ways beans and other pulses have been eaten in different cultures, an American professor of nutrition told the 2nd annual Pulse Health and Food Symposium. Donna Winham, a professor in the Department of Nutrition at Arizona State […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Pulses pack a mighty punch with their nutrition and health benefits, but like a poorly understood superhero, they can’t get any respect, nutritional experts lament. In fact, as incomes rise in countries that have traditionally leaned heavily on dietary pulses, consumers abandon them in favour of diets less conducive to good health. Speakers addressing the […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes “We want Canadian consumers to value this wheat as much as our export customers do.” – Ian White, President and CEO of the Canadian Wheat Board Television commercials and other promotional messages will soon be telling Canadian consumers pasta is made from Prairie-grown durum wheat. They’re part of a national campaign launched between the Canadian […] Read more