Brasathe Jeganathan’s PhD research at the U of A yielded new, more sustainable ways to extract protein from faba beans, which could help meet the growing demand for plant-based sources of the vital ...

Faba beans have been an excellent source of food protein since pre-historic times, but about 5% of people, mostly from regions where malaria has been endemic and who carry a certain mutation, can't ...

An international team of researchers has managed to read the whole genome of faba bean, and to put the new genome to immediate use, finding a key gene for seed size, an important food characteristic.

For those who follow a vegan diet, one thing you'll have likely had to consider is making your sure body gets enough protein. Of course, in this day and age (and as veganism continues to become more ...

The potential for locally grown faba bean to increase the protein content in store-bought bread is being investigated by researchers in the UK. Is faba bean the greatest thing since sliced bread?

Could a hybrid cheese analogue – which swaps out some dairy for faba protein and mealworm flour – improve nutrition and sensory properties? Researchers investigate. Growing concerns around population ...