This interests me.  As I understand it, and I don't claim to
understand
much,  lectins are in lots of (almost all?) foods including vegetables
and
fruit.

Nuts give me horrible problems.  I love them and sometimes eat them,
thinking, what the heck, they are paleo.    I used to get zits when I
ate
lots of nuts.  Not just zits, like horrible breakouts on my neck and
chest
where I never had before.  At first I thought it was an allergic
reaction.
All tests for all allergies come back negative.

I know now that walnuts and almonds give me the worst IBS symptoms,
right up
there with wheat, legumes of any sort, sugar, potato...okay the list
goes on
and on, but I thought that nuts, being paleo, wouldn't hurt me, as
nothing
else paleo does...except the disputed new world nightshades which at
least
for me make me hurt so bad.  So I know nuts contain something that
flares my
IBS.  I thought it was some poison someone mentioned a while back (was
it
arsenic?).  But anyways it happens on any kind of nuts.  Except
peanuts,
which I don't eat anyways.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turns out to be the nut lectins
that
are responsible for these IBS flareups..

Judith


>Edible nuts have lectins too, but there is no data
>available that those partiucular lectins affect us, although I would like
to
>see more data. Like many things, if they don't cause problems, you won't
see
>much research on them.

>Ben Balzer