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I bought Staffan Lindeberg's book "Food and Western Disease". I ran across this, "Cooking beans in a pressure cooker deactivates their lectin, which has been shown for Turkish beans, and which is expected to be true for most plant lectins. " (pg. 53) with scientific reference Grant, G, More, LJ, McKenzie,NH, Pusztai, A (1982) "The effect of heating on the haemagglutinating activity and nutritional properties of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) seeds. J Sci Food Agric 33, 1324-6.

Later, he discusses root vegetables, "Root vegetables are best cooked in a pressure cooker to deactivate the lectins and other bioactive proteins." (pg. 228)

My questions are: 1. Is there enough evidence to use a pressure cooker for cooking root vegetables? 2. Are there disadvantages to using a pressure cooker?

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Adam Crafter · Answer 1 · 2012-01-05 15:45:19Z UTC

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I have discovered that pressure cooked beans are more flavorful, and very dramatically remove whatever was giving me GI gas from beans.

Yes, it removed the BOOM from the room.

answered Jan 5 2012 at 15:45

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Good to know, but, unless I'm starving, not fasting, and all I have are beans, it's not something I'd consume. But this old post brought up something interesting, wasn't aware that root veggies had lectins to worry about. As I google this, is there a list of which has'em? – raydawg Jan 5 2012 at 16:51

Kevin Thom · Answer 2 · 2010-09-11 15:57:50Z UTC

I don't know about deactivating lectins or bioactive proteins, but I find that root vegetables cooked in the pressure cooker are more flavorful and "lively" than other methods I've tried. Also, the fact you can cook beets in 15 minutes is a major plus.

Eva · Answer 3 · 2010-09-13 04:00:16Z UTC

Found this link studying cooking methods for peas: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T6R-45TRX96-8&_user=10&_coverDate=05%2F31%2F2002&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1458735704&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=71e37ac207a49db37da9448ed0ab6efb&searchtype=a

Can't access the full study, but got the impression that pressure cooker was best but did not fully remove all toxins.

staceychev · Answer 4 · 2012-01-05 16:42:43Z UTC

Interesting. Lorna Sass (vegan cookbook writer) advocates a lot of pressure cooker use. In fact, her Complete Vegetarian Kitchen cookbook is still on my shelf, years after abandoning vegetarianism, for its usefulness in learning how to use that method. If you want to go that bean-eating way, it's a great book to have. (And her quick pickled beets with apple cider recipe is awesome!)

srzp · Answer 5 · 2012-06-11 08:23:22Z UTC

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hi. how much pressure cooking deactivelectin in the foods?

answered Jun 11 at 8:23

srzp
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