Lupin is traditionally used to feed cattle in Australia but aged care facilities are now adding it to their residents' food. The nutrition results experienced in the program are being labelled as 'remarkable'.
The lupin legume is traditionally used for cattle feed in Australia, but aged care facilities are adding it to residents' food.A legume traditionally used to feed cattle could reduce malnutrition rates in aged care residents across Australia, according to a Queensland researcher.
"But when we measure quality of life, we can actually measure the impact that food-first approaches have on overall quality of life."The program followed a 2018 Bond University study that took 18 months and found malnutrition dropped by 34 per cent among aged care residents who had lupin flour introduced to their diet over three months.
Eric Anderson is the CEO of the Adventist Retirement Aged Care facility where residents have had lupin added to their diet for the past five years, following the 18-month trial. "We look at that more than once just to make sure there's not going to be an issue ."In the New South Wales border town of Albury, farmer Gary Drew has been growing lupins as feed for his livestock since the 1980s."The human consumption idea didn't come until we were actually steaming and rolling some lupins in one of the dry periods," Mr Drew said.
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