Hi,
More on antinutrinets. Someone sent a request for more info- don't mean to
be rude but it's on the office computer so i can't access it at the moment.-
I hope you get it.
Now, it is a scientific fact of long standing that seeds contain
antinutrients as mentioned below. The best references on this are:
1. Irvin Liener, "Toxic Constituents of Plant Food Substances", 2nd ed, 1980
http://gate.library.ualberta.ca:8002/MARION/ABH-6287 has some more librarian
info on it
2. Cordain L, Cereal Grains: Humanity's Double Edged Sword. World Review of
Nutrition & Dietetics, 1999;84:19-73

Ref 2 is the extraxct that Don Wiss distributed a few copies of. Fantastic
stuff- complex science, tertiary level.
Ref 1 is even heavier- one of the heaviest books I have ever tried to read.
Liener is an agricultural professor and bigwig. His main aim with this book
is to make beans etc more edible and more saleable.- as Ray Audette says, to
make the inedible edible. As it happens, as one slowly progresses through
this book, guess where all those toxic constituents of plant foodstuffs
live??????- You got it right, they're in Neolithic foods, not in paleolithic
foods. They're predominantly in seeds for the reasons explained below.
Paricularly protease inhibiors and lectins.

Why is cooking so necessary?- well it does destroy a lot of the
antinutrients, but not all of them. These leftover toxins get the blame for
many Neolithic diseases. Liener himself says in the first chapter that with
the discovery of fire and cooking, man made available a huge range of new
foods that were previously inedible (my interpretation, not a direct quote).

Ben Balzer



> Nope-\they're not edible without cooking
> They're on Ray Audette's thou shalt not eat list
> like all seeds they're brimming with antinutrients that nature put there
to
> act as:
> 1. Natural pesticides
> 2. Natural preservatives-
> the most potent enzyme inhibitors known. So potent that wheat seeds in the
> tombs of the pharaohs were still viable thousands of years later, or so
> we're told, but it could be another theory made up by the military
> industrial complex to increase profits........only kidding, I'm sure it
did
> really happen.
>
> Ben
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 12:40 AM
> Subject: [P-F] Chick Peas and Lentils
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Are chick peas and lentils paleo?
> >
> > regards
> >
> > kelly
>