Ingrid Bauer wrote:

> Any seeds go thru a process where the original simple sugars turn into
> starch .
> Peas lentils chickpeas in their green stage are very much like a fruit easy
> to digest in the raw state, once they get ripe and drying out, the starch
> content  and the enzyme inhibitor make them indigestible. At this stage they
> require cooking or sprouting to start again the metabolic processes that
> bring them out of their dormant stage. ( starch turning into sugar again).
> So a dry pea being unedible raw will make it not paleo?!

So this sounds like a plausible explanation of why Elaine Gottschall's
"Specific Carbohydrate Diet" requires long pre-soaking periods for
those few dried legumes that it allows...

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Deanna