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Fava beans (AKA faba beans, horse beans, broad beans) seem about to turn a corner in their availability and suitability for use in plant-based alt-meat formulations.
University of Helsinki announced that a team of researchers in Finland, Denmark and the UK have mapped the pulse’s enormous genome — four times bigger than a human genome…