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Black Beans 400 gram

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Normally imported from far away, now grown close to home. We have taken a traditional European (Basque country) variety and re-introduced it to the European market. All grown without chemical inputs.

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At a glance:

Rich in Protein & Fiber
Grown just meters from Ekoto's warehouse
No pesticides are used at Ekoto Farm
Supports research to plant-based farming
Ekoto farms by regenerative practices

Detailed information:

Produced in: Etten-Leur, The Netherlands
Produced by: Ivar van Dorst
Field objective: Stripcropping, biodiversity enhancement
Certificates: Global GAP Certified
Transport mode to warehouse: -
Bulk storage: Bulk boxes (packaging free)
Packaging: unbleached kraft paper bag
How to recycle: With paper and carton

Cooking

Rinse the beans in a sieve and check on foreign seeds or stones.
Use 1 part beans for 3 parts water and let the beans soak for 8 to 12 hours.
Throw out the water from soaking. This lowers the reaction of your intestines to pulses, when you are not used to eating them.
Boil 45 to 60 minutes for beans with a bite or 1 to 1.5 hours when desiring soft beans.
Add salt after boiling to avoid the beans from getting a tougher skin.

Nutrition

Beans are rich in protein, fibers and trace elements such as iron and vitamin B2.

This product may contain traces of gluten.

Nutritional value	Per 100 gram		Per portion (40 g)		RI*
Energy	1427kJ (341 kcal)		571 kJ (136 kcal)
Fat	1.4	g	0.6	g
Of which saturated	0.4	g	0.2	g
Carbohydrates	62	g	24.8	g
Of which sugars	3.6	g	1.4	g
Fibre	15.5	g	6.2	g
Protein	21.6	g	8.6	g
Salt	0.01	g	0.0	g
Potassium	1483	mg	593.2	mg	74%
Pholic acid	444	µg	177.6	µg	222%
Magnesium	171	mg	68.4	mg	46%
Iron	5	mg	2.0	mg	36%
Zinc	3.7	mg	1.5	mg	37%
Calcium	123	mg	49.2	mg	15%
Copper	0.8	mg	0.3	mg	84%
Thiamin/vitamin B1	0.9	mg	0.4	mg	82%
Pantothenic acid/vitamin B5	0.9	mg	0.4	mg	15%

*Reference intake of an average adult ( 8400 kJ/2000 kcal) per 100gr

Sustainability

The most obvious sustainable impact is of course the transport emissions that are reduced. Ekoto's beans are grown straight next to the warehouse, where they are processed and packaged in all-paper packaging. Like most of Ekoto's products, the paper packaging is made of unbleached paper.

Pulses are also important to have in every country's cultivation landscape. The legume plant has a particular symbiosis with soil bacteria that fixates nitrogen from the air and makes it available for the plant to be taken up. If this crop is more commonly grown in northern Europe, we will need less or no (chemical) inputs.

Producer

In the south of the Netherlands, only metres away from Ekoto's warehouse lay the fields of Ekoto. Ekoto's Farm is the experimental farm, where Ekoto is applying innovative methods, crops and techniques to pave a way to a regenerative future. At the same time Ekoto Farm also runs production crops. These products are all sold in short supply chains.

Ekoto farm works wits a strip-cropping method. A stripcropping field means that every long, yet narrow strip is interchanged by a variety of other crops before a certain crop is repeated in that field. Making a very bio-diverse field, which strengthens the natural protection of a crop such as beans. This system allows that no chemical inputs are needed. The field is also surrounded by a mixed flower strip, enhancing biodiversity even further. At Ekoto farm no pesticides, fungicides and herbicides are used.

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