Ella Mills

This was a really interesting piece.

Actually, this has been on our agenda for a few months now.

It's from slightly earlier in the year, but we never had space.

We got space for it today.

And it was looking at the growing research around beans, legumes and brain health.

I love it.

Yeah.

Do you know what?

We're going to talk about it next week, but there's different countries sharing refreshed kind of eat well plates, food guidelines for the population, etc.

And it's so interesting to see more countries, we don't have it here yet, but more countries specifically recommending daily intake of beans and legumes.

Yeah, I think they always had this quite unappealing connotation.

And there's amazing brands like Amelia at Bold Bean who are doing huge work to try and change the reputation of beans.

But certainly for me growing up, like I remember when I changed my diet and I went, yeah, this big focus on whole foods and plant-based foods and people being like...

What are you going to eat?

Did you eat just beans straight away?

I did.

You did straight away?

Interesting.

But people were like, a lentil?

Like, as though a lentil was like the grossest, weirdest thing you could ever eat.