On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 21:36:50 +0900, you wrote:

>On Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 05:45  PM, Gerard Farrell wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Jean-Claude!
>> I hope I don't bore anyone with questions that have probably been
>> answered
>> 100's if times before, but I can't figure out why we can't eat peanuts
>> (Monkey nuts).
>
> From the general rule that we don't eat legumes. The great majority of
>legumes are poisonous raw. Some are even poisonous after cooking. There
>are a few exceptions, like green beans, snow peas, and peanuts that can
>be eaten raw with little trouble. I think that is not a hard and fast
>rule, Audette in Neanderthin even says that there have been few
>scientifically verified problems with bean eating. Personally, I eat
>few beans, but do sometimes. Peanuts tend to give me heartburn, so I
>only eat a few at a time.

Also, commercially prepared peanuts often have aflatoxins.


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Cheers,

Ken