Tin can ally

What do baked beans mean in your kitchen?All your life, you've been lied to. Turns out they're not bloody baked beans, they're stewed beans. They don't do what they say on the tin. Someone needs to take Heinz and the supermarkets and the rest of the mislabellers to the ASA. Someone needs to spill the beans.The beans in "baked" beans are navy beans, common beans, Phaseolus vulgaris, the same and vital species that gives us kidney, cannellini, french, black, pinto, haricot, flageolet, borlotti and marrow. They are native to the New World and, along with squash and maize, formed the so-called "three sisters" that were the agricultural base of Native American cultures. Such beans contain up to three times the protein of rice or wheat, making rice and beans, stalwart dish of the Americas and

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