Are red beans toxic

Answer 1

I've eaten raw green beans from my garden often. Many times when snapping off the tops and bottoms to cook them, I just pop beans into my mouth instead. I'm sure I've consumed at least a half a pound of them this way at a time. Then I cook the beans, but not too much because I like them still kinda crunchy with butter.

I never even CONSIDERED that green beans could be toxic until I read that Kidney Beans have phytohemagglutinin when raw, and that this can actually increase on cooking if not cooked at 100C for 10 minutes which destroys it. Kidney beans/navy beans/green beans I believe are the same species of beans.

If it were possible to get poisoning from raw/improperly cooked green beans however, I think I would most likely have discovered that given the way I prefer to eat them ( raw preferred to slightly cooked and will eat overcooked to canned greenbean texture if there is no choice ). I consider the way most people eat greenbeans to be overcooked mush.

I also like to eat sprouted lentils. It never occurred to me that they might be poisonous. I don't think they are though as I've eaten LOTS of these.

Still, I had considered trying Kidney Bean Sprouts, but I don't think I will now.