Are the Lectins in Beans Dangerous? One of Them Is.
Are lectins in beans dangerous? Can you cook dried kidney beans in a slow cooker? Here’s the truth: your beans were never the problem. The problem is a pot that never boiled long enough.
In this episode of The Habit Healers Podcast, I walk you through a file of kidney bean poisonings that public health investigators collected over nearly thirteen years, most of them in ordinary home kitchens, including one where the beans had been cooked for two full hours. You’ll learn what phytohemagglutinin is, why raw kidney beans carry so much more lectin activity than cooked ones, and why temperature…
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