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> 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.


for me there is no problem eating legumes when coming strait from the garden
in their green state . the problem arise with dry grains i think it is also
okay to eat sprouted legumes seeds ( lentils,  chick peas especially )
despite i don't do it anymore for over 10 years .
also there is some legumes fruit i eat like carob or cassia ( medicinal )
the pulp of the fruits are delicious but the seeds are not eaten .

> And on a similar note, I read somewhere that cashew nuts are poisonous
> unless they are heated first to make them safe to eat.  So is there any
> reason to believe that cashew are safe to eat on a modern paleo diet?
> I ate 100g of them today and yesterday so I hope they aren't doing me
> in :-S
>
cashews are completelly edible raw only the inedible shell contain a pockets
of toxic oil so they are difficult to open whithout taking the risk to burn
your skin .they also produce one nut per fruit and are not abondant so when
it comes to eat shelled bleached cashews who are said to be raw ( but in
fact are not ) they not only taste awfull in comparaison with the really raw
ones but are undigestible in quantity.
jean-claude