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9. Kidney Beans
If you thought lima beans were bad, you are really going to think twice the next time you make chili.
Although many types of beans have a toxic compound, red kidney beans have the highest concentration of all beans. You need to vigorously boil kidney beans to remove this toxin. Eating raw kidney beans will bring on symptoms within 1 to 3 hours and it only takes about 4 or 5 beans to do the trick. Symptoms start with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.
Many cases are due to slow cookers or crock pots, as the temperatures do not reach a high enough level to destroy the glycoprotein lectin. In fact, heating kidney beans to a mere 80 degrees actually makes the toxin more potent, perhaps as much as 5 times stronger! So heating the beans without actually boiling them would make them even more deadly than eating them raw.
So go ahead and make that chili this weekend. Just be sure to boil it well, or use canned beans that are already cooked.
alaskaman
Oct 25, 2014 at 3:52 am
10 everyday foods? Since when is fugu or puffer fish everyday food?