Kidney Bean Poisoning
Last week Eric was listening to Dead Heat by Dick Francis
Apparently, raw and undercooked red kidney beans can cause a wicked case of food poisoning. As few as 3 or 4 can have you miserable for hours.
From what I read, to avoid this all dried kidney beans must be soaked for a few hours and boiled for at least 10 minutes. Because of this, it is not recommended that you cook raw kidney beans in a crock pot.
I had never heard of this before. I couldn't believe all of the hits returned when I googled "kidney bean poisoning." Why is this information not more well known?
Here are a few of the sources I read through.
Is this news to you too, or is it just me?
8 comments:
Your presentation is colorful and concise, an informative read. Now I know why those kidney beans I tried a while back may have given me such a stomach ache!
Interesting! I didn't know this before. Thanks for sharing.
I didn't know this, either. Thank you for sharing it!
I didn't know this....and I love kidney beans! I guess lucky for me I always buy the kind in a can. Great information to know though.
I'm glad you shared that! I had never heard of this before.
I haven't heard this! Thank goodness I read this before I cooked my bag of kidney beans. It would have been the first time cooking them myself, and I probobly would have ended up sick!
Who knew? Not me. Thanks for sharing this info. Guess it's a good thing I always buy the canned kidney beans.
Oh my gosh! I'd never heard of this before, but this may be the cause of a "virus" that visits our family frequently. Sometimes, when we forget to soak our beans overnight, we'll try a rapid soak with them (we eat a lot of kidney beans). I wonder if the beans are not being cooked all the way. Something to consider, for sure. Thanks so much for the information!
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