Resources

Education Materials for Consumers

• Are Beans A Fruit, Vegetable, Or Main Dish?

• The New American Plate

• Eat More Beans

• Bean Magic, developed by Uconn Cooperative Extension

• Healing Foods Pyramid by Michigan State

• Bean Basics

• Selection, Preparation and Nutrition of Dry Beans and Peas, brought to you by Utah State University Extension

• Singing the Praises of Beans, brought to you by the University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension, Lincoln

Resources for Health Professionals

Sign up for an email information series from Archer Daniels Midland Company, a BHA member.

Produce for Better Health Foundation

Bean Recipes From the Idaho Bean Commission

• Main Dish

• Side Dishes

• Snacks

• Salads

• Drinks

• Desserts

Helpful Bean-, Nutrition- and Health-related Links

From dry-bean information to health- and nutrition-related organizations and publications, these links provide a wealth of collected knowledge.

Dry Bean Information/Bean-related Organizations

American Dry Bean Board

Idaho Bean Commission

Michigan Bean Commission

National Dry Bean Council

USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council

Nebraska Dry Bean Commission

Northarvest Bean Growers Association

Bean Companies

Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)

Bush Brothers and Company

H.J. Heinz Company

Hoopeston Foods Inc.

L. H. Hayward & Co., L.L.C./Camellia Brand Dried Beans

Bean Recipes

www.bushbeans.com/recipes/index.jsp 

www.americanbean.org/Information/Recipe%20Book/Home.htm

Research Groups/Projects/Scientists/Nutrition Experts

American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), www.aicr.org

International Diabetes Federation (IDF), www.idf.org

Bean/Cowpea Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), a consortium of universities, www.isp.msu.edu/CRSP

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Australasian Nutrition Advisory Council (ANAC)

Future Harvest

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

University of Michigan Integrative Medicine

Claudius Marondedze, Ph.D., University of Zimbabwe

Cade Fields-Gardner

Shelley Case

Global Aid, Hunger and Relief Organizations

Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Relief Services-Rwanda

The Global Coalition on Women and Aids

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

United Nations World Food Programme

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

World Health Organization

Africa, Health-related Links

African Health Website links and journals

African Health News

Africa MD

Health Action AIDS

Healthlink Worldwide

World Health Organization for Africa

Food Security and Food Policy Information Portal for Africa, UN-ECA DISD & SDD, in cooperation with African Food Security/Policy Networks and Michigan State University Ag. Economics.
Note: parts of this informative website are still under construction. 

Latin America, Health-related Links

CARMEN Pan American Network (Conjunto de Acciones para la Reducción Multifactorial de Enfermedades Notransmissibles, an initiative for integrated noncommunicable disease prevention in the Americas)

Healthlink Worldwide

Latin American Health Data

Latin American Health Institute

Latin American Medical Association (LANAMA)

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Healing Foods Pyramid by Michigan State

More Health- and Nutrition-related Information

Produce for Better Health/5-A-Day, www.5aday.org, www.5aday.gov, www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/5aday

The Glycemic Index

Global HIV nutrition database: food and nutrition activities in response to HIV/AIDS

National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC)

Savory Palate