Pulses

Most pulses are imported into Thailand. They are not part of the daily diets of most Thais, as they are commonly used for toppings for salads, smoothies, desserts, and specialised main dishes from other cuisines. Popular pulses in Thailand include ...

Americans are showing an ever increasing desire to consume healthier foods with natural qualities, as well as considering the environmental footprint of the food they consume in their purchasing decision. This trend can be clearly seen across a wide ...

Healthy and natural sources of protein are likely to remain an important part of the health and wellness trend and competition in this space is set to continue intensifying during the forecast period. Crucially, there is potential for pulses to ...

The fresh food industry experienced another year of positive growth in 2017, driven by volume growth in emerging regions of Asia Pacific and Middle East and Africa. Overall, volume growth has been supported by a positive performance in all ...

The demand for beans was generally on the rise in the review period, due to improved living standards, which led to changes in consumers’ eating habits, especially in city centres. These consumers, with their high disposable incomes, were willing to ...

Pulses provide an affordable source of protein and are particularly important amongst South Asian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates. The success of pulses in the country is largely attributed to the large population of vegetarians, particularly...

Pulses is expected to continue gaining volume share against animal-based proteins as British consumers become increasingly health- and environmentally-conscious. Per capita consumption of meat will continue to decline as consumers look to replace ...

India, which is the world’s largest producer and consumer of pulses, is seeing a constant rise in demand for these products. Unfortunately, demand is often unmet due to fluctuating prices, weak support from the government and monsoon conditions. ...

Italian consumers continue to seek more natural products. This may positively impact fresh pulses, as a shift away from shelf stable products towards fresh ones is expected. As mainstream players continue to keep an eye on the difficulties facing ...

There has been a recent trend in France for consuming more ancient grains – “ancient” referring to their ancient origin. Ancient grains include quinoa, amaranth, barley, spelt, kamut, millet, teff, chia seeds and flaxseeds. Many of these seeds ...

The domestic production of beans in Mexico almost covers national apparent consumption in the country, with only around 10% covered by imports. Production stability also allows price stability. However, in 2017 a high increase of around 30% was seen ...

The consumption of pulses is expected to be positively affected by the strengthening health and wellness trend. As a standard option used in a variety of dishes, including soups, peas dominated total volume sales. However, more attention is being ...

In 2017, pulses registered total volume growth which was marginally lower than the previous year. As with all agricultural products, the growth of pulses is largely impacted by the weather, with unfavourable conditions affecting production and having...

After a strong decline in volume terms in 2016, pulses saw an exceptional harvest in 2017, which positively impacted consumption, besides reducing unit prices, mainly in the retail channel. Beans represents most volume sales of pulses, and it is the ...

Not regarded as a daily necessity, pulses has quite a small base amongst local consumers. Within pulses, beans, mainly mung beans, are popular products, owing to their perceived health function of dispelling dampness from the body. Convinced by the ...

Pulses remained a rather small category within fresh food in Germany in 2017, and sales are not expected to be much higher in the last year of the forecast period – 2022. The split between beans, peas and other pulses (mainly lentils, but also ...

Since dried pulses are mainly purchased for further processing or for the foodservice channel, the retail volume of pulses is relatively small in Japan. Amongst pulses, beans has the highest sales, accounting for nearly half of total volume ...

Many Moroccans consume high quantities of pulses for various reasons. There is a common consensus that they are very healthy as well as helping the body to maintain a high temperature and thus pulses tend to be consumed in high quantities during the ...

Consumption of fresh pulses continued to drop in 2017, hindered by high maturity of the category. Despite the fact that Spain is one of the biggest per capita pulse consumers in Western Europe – it currently consumes around 3kg/person a year – with ...