United Soybean Board Better Bean Initiative

Durham, D. The United Soybean Boards better bean initiative Building United States soybean competitiveness from the inside out. AgBioForum 2003, 6/1 2), 23—26. 

In the 1990s, the United Soybean Boards Better Bean Initiative proposed that a high-oleic acid soybean be developed. However, they subsequendy recommended that a mid-oleic acid /low linolenic acid soybean oil be developed as a new commodity oilseed. 

The Better Bean Initiative from the United Soybean Board of USA is developing the mid-oleic soybean oil, which will not require hydrogenation for industrial frying apphcations. Full commercialization of this oil will take at least six to ten years. In the meantime, the food industry in the United States will have to be very creative to reduce trans-faXs in fried foods as well as in other products. 

One of the outstanding partnerships for the future of soybeans is known as the Better Bean Initiative (BBI). The farmer-directed United Soybean Board (USB) is utilizing its check-off funding to develop a soybean seed with enhanced compositional traits that better meet the needs of the end users and enhance the economic value for U.S. producers. 

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