Baked Beans make you smart, Baked Beans make you ......

As this can of beans travels around the world, it would like to visit as many caches as possible, and to meet many cachers.  Please share a photo with a can of beans from your cupboard!

The starting point for this travel bug is Hastings New Zealand, the home of Watties NZ Ltd, and where the beans are cooked and canned.

Launched in 1944 originally to the New Zealand armed forces during WW2, Wattie’s Baked Beans have become New Zealand’s number one choice of baked beans.

Why? Consumers tell us that ‘Wattie’s is simply Baked Beans as they should be – nutritious beans in a delicious thick and rich tomato sauce. Wattie’s tastes the best’.

Baked beans are high in dietary fibre, high in protein and a source of iron. Wattie’s Baked Beans are also 99% fat-free. That’s why we call them Nature’s Super Food. They also have a Low GI (50) which means that they provide sustained energy that will keep you going for longer, with no added colours or preservatives.

Did you Know?

New Zealanders enjoy 22 million cans of baked beans each year!

The beans presently used to make baked beans are all native to North America and were introduced to Italy in 1528 and to France by 1547. The dish of baked beans is commonly described as having a savory-sweet flavor and a brownish or reddish tinted white bean once baked, stewed, canned or otherwise cooked

In the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore the term baked beans usually refers to tinned beans in a tomato sauce. They were originally imported from American companies, first sold in the UK in 1886 in the upmarket Fortnum & Mason store in London as an expensive foreign delicacy.^[9]

Today, baked beans are a staple convenience food in the UK, often eaten as part of the modern full English breakfast and particularly on toast (called simply 'beans on toast'). Baked beans freshly cooked from raw ingredients, much closer to their original unprocessed, unindustrialised form, are offered by a few upmarket brunch establishments.