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"Uncle Marvo" writes:
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| IMHO runner bean beans are not as tasty as broad beans. Though when we were
| kids, we used to fight over the "fairy slippers" while mum was splitting the
| runners. They are very tasty raw, as you say, and to the best of my
| knowledge I never died as a result of (usually) winning the fairy slipper
| fight.

I do not know at what stage the toxin develops, but I suspect that it
is associated with ripening. Those would have been very unripe.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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, I, Marvo, say :

In article ,
"Uncle Marvo" writes:

IMHO runner bean beans are not as tasty as broad beans. Though when
we were kids, we used to fight over the "fairy slippers" while mum
was splitting the runners. They are very tasty raw, as you say, and
to the best of my knowledge I never died as a result of (usually)
winning the fairy slipper fight.

I do not know at what stage the toxin develops, but I suspect that it
is associated with ripening. Those would have been very unripe.

According to most of what I read these days I died about 47 years ago. But I
didn't. Does that make me special, or does it make most of what I read these
days a bag of propaganda?

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In reply to Nick Maclaren ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

In article ,
"Uncle Marvo" writes:

IMHO runner bean beans are not as tasty as broad beans. Though when
we were kids, we used to fight over the "fairy slippers" while mum
was splitting the runners. They are very tasty raw, as you say, and
to the best of my knowledge I never died as a result of (usually)
winning the fairy slipper fight.

I do not know at what stage the toxin develops, but I suspect that it
is associated with ripening. Those would have been very unripe.

According to most of what I read these days I died about 47 years ago. But
I didn't. Does that make me special, or does it make most of what I read
these days a bag of propaganda?

I should have died decades ago too.

Tough :-)

Mary

I must have not boiled them long enough once many years ago, because I
started throwing up an hour or two after eating them and did so every half
an hour for 12 hours!

In reply to Nick Maclaren ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

In article ,
"Uncle Marvo" writes:

IMHO runner bean beans are not as tasty as broad beans. Though when
we were kids, we used to fight over the "fairy slippers" while mum
was splitting the runners. They are very tasty raw, as you say, and
to the best of my knowledge I never died as a result of (usually)
winning the fairy slipper fight.

I do not know at what stage the toxin develops, but I suspect that it
is associated with ripening. Those would have been very unripe.

Interestingly (perhaps) the mycotoxins in wheat are associated with
ripening, but the ripening kills the toxins, rather than the other way
around.