International Year of Pulses Archives

Pulse industry sets growth target

The goal is to find new uses for 25 per cent of the industry’s productive capacity

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 24, 2017

Pulse Canada is aiming to find new uses for up to 25 per cent of the industry’s production by the year 2025. The recently approved “25 by 2025” target was set as part of the organization’s long-term planning process and will give the whole industry a target to strive for. The industry will marshal its

Bean and lentil legumes background as a group of assorted fava soy red black beans as a healthy nutrition high fiber food concept as a healthy cooking natural food ingredient.

Local news, Pulses

Chefs to celebrate pulse crops

A special pulse menu is part of a six-month project to celebrate Canadian cuisine

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 7, 2016

The Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers are teaming up with a consortium of chefs who are celebrating — while simultaneously creating — a uniquely Canadian cuisine. The Sentruhl Project (pronounced central) is spending the next six months inviting Manitobans to dine with them every Saturday and Sunday, when the chefs will prepare a new tasting

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Take the Pulse Pledge

Prairie Fare: Roasted Beet Hummus, Cumin Roasted Carrot and Lentil Tacos and Peanut Butter Chickpea Energy Balls

By Lorraine Stevenson July 8, 2016

We’re halfway through International Year of Pulses (IYP). Are you eating more of them yet? If not, sign up for the Pulse Pledge. You’ll be inspired to try. First, a word on the IYP. The United Nations declared 2016 the year of pulses to remind us how diets of pulses are healthier for both people

Brandon Clayton (l) shows Tyffany Wentoniw, Abraham Lemus and Elvis Mingano how to make crepes using chickpea flour at Elmwood High School.

Crops, Pulses

Bean Team spreads word on pulse crops

By Shannon VanRaes May 19, 2016

The Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers is bringing nutritional information into the province’s schools

“It tastes just the same as any other crepe I’ve had,” said a slightly surprised Gage Anderson. “It tastes good.” Anderson and two dozen other students at Winnipeg’s Elmwood High School made the crepes using chickpea flour last week, as part of a new outreach initiative launched by Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers. In recognition

People grabbed pulse-based snacks and information during the launch of the International Year of Pulses at McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg’s Grant Park Shopping Centre.

Local news, Pulses

Crossing the urban-rural divide to promote pulses

The International Year of Pulses has the potential to increase  demand for the types of pulse crops grown in Manitoba

By Shannon VanRaes January 14, 2016

It’s noon and McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg’s Grant Park Shopping Centre is so packed that it takes several minutes and sharp elbows to navigate the throng of people. But these urbanites aren’t here to shop for books to feed their minds, they’re here to learn about healthy new eats made from some unlikely sources

Local news, Pulses

VIDEO: Cooking up good things with pulses

Canned chickpea water substitutes for egg whites in making macarons

By Shannon VanRaes January 8, 2016

While Canada grows copious amounts of pulses, most are exported. Chefs Geoffroy Dextraze and Chef Chris Kopp of Winnipeg’s Prairie Ink Restaurant and Bakery share their experiences developing new pulse recipes for the provincial launch of the International Year of Pulses. The event was put on by the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers and attended by

News, Pulses

U.N. declares 2016 as the International Year of Pulses

Legumes have agronomic and health benefits

By Shannon VanRaes November 26, 2015

Move over quinoa and look out soil, pulses have claimed the podium. Last week the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization announced that 2016 has been christened the International Year of Pulses, a title that will lead to co-ordinated efforts among growers, scientists, health experts and nations in an effort to encourage the consumption of

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Pulse industry sets growth target

Chefs to celebrate pulse crops

Take the Pulse Pledge

Bean Team spreads word on pulse crops

Crossing the urban-rural divide to promote pulses

VIDEO: Cooking up good things with pulses

U.N. declares 2016 as the International Year of Pulses

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