Whole Faba Beans: export from Canada to ASEAN

Whole faba beans divide by variety into low-tannin types generally targeted at food use and conventional types going to feed and aquaculture. Tannin content affects both palatability and processing behaviour, so variety is the first thing to establish rather than an afterthought.

For food buyers the specification points are size, colour, defect tolerance and, where the bean will be dehulled, hull percentage and dehulling yield. For feed and aquaculture buyers protein content and price dominate and the tolerance widens considerably.

Canadian faba production is smaller than the major pulses and concentrated on the prairies, which makes it a specification-led rather than volume-led trade.

Faba is worth considering as a hedge within a pulse programme, since it performs in conditions where peas and lentils struggle and its availability in a given crop year does not always move in the same direction as the rest of the category.

Faba classification can differ between food and feed presentations in some destinations, which matters because the duty position may follow. State the intended use as well as the form when you ask us to confirm the line.