carob grows on trees and the whole, very dark brown 'fruit', is a long quite
graceful pod... as someone who spent her childhood in a place where carob
grows wild; and has stopped many a time to pick up the pods and chew on them
whole, seems quite 'paleo' to me... it's hard work all this chewing but not
much more than on a piece of jerky...
it might be classified as a bean in a botanical sense but it's not a
legume...  it  requires no processing to become edible [unless you want to
grind it down to a powder etc.]

Dedy


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:44 PM
Subject: carob question


> Does anyone know if carob is paleo? I see that it is on many paleo recipes
> at the paleo site, but I've heard it called a carob bean more often than
> carob fruit.
> Jim