Green impact leading to growth in the US Packaged Dry Beans Market

Posted by Andrew Thomas on September 30th, 2019

Are you aware of the specifics about the food you eat, how it was reared and processed afterward? Or what about the energy, calories it contains – and it’s impossible to compare two protein sources from two different companies and identify what’s different. Animal proteins do have some level of environmental impact, where the rearing, transportation, and distribution of cows, or the beef meat adds to environmental pollution in the form of GHG emissions.

This is one big reason why people are turning away from beef/meat consumption and choosing beans and meat alternatives available in the US Packaged Dry Beans Market, for protein. In their opinion, the beans require less energy, are cleaner when from the time they’re being cultivated, to the time they are sent out to stores where they’re purchased.  

It is a whole lot greener, but things still have to be fine-tuned – for example, manufacturers do use energy in their plants for powering all the machinery that cleans, dries and then seals the beans into packets. Aside from that, the manufacturers might require even more energy to make those bags, packets as well.   

In the vegetarian’s diet, where protein comes from beans and other processed legumes, these are still some of the perplexities to be worried about although not as much as packaged meats. For example, consumers aren’t sure of the amount of land, water or the petroleum-based fertilizers that went into producing those beans. It also doesn’t describe the energy utilized for processing those beans later on or when distributing it out to the stores. If that’s the case, they can choose to buy fully organic beans – or from brands that are more open about how they buy, build, make and distribute their foods.  

These are just the kind of concerns that have consumers have when making their purchase, or when switching from one brand to the next. So in their quest to be environmentally conscious, they make the responsible choice of buying dried beans packets. For one, certain kinds of legumes, beans enrich the soil they’re cultivated on, and in this sense might require less fertilizer.

You do have to prepare the beans, legumes for consumption, but usually, it only requires soaking, boiling and cooking in water or liquid bases – so that’s practically nothing. This cooking method is one more decision point to consider. In the US, consumers tend to use the slow cooker, which requires less water or they may use electric pots that take a longer time. So, consumers can find ways to reduce the energy used for cooking the beans.

Then you have the canned beans that come prepared and normally don’t require boiling, soaking. Usually, the beans can be dried, or fresh when being packaged or processed. Granted, the energy, metal used for making those cans and the filling them is there, it’s much less than compared with meat packaging and processing.  

Then, many dried beans come in plastic bags – and these bags require some level of energy and petroleum to make. But inside the market, one does have certain dried beans options packaged inside the paper and other kinds of reusable tins.

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