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Cooking for Diabetes Prevention
Published in Nicole M. Farmer, Andres Victor Ardisson Korat, Cooking for Health and Disease Prevention, 2022
Andres Victor Ardisson Korat, Grace Rivers
Legumes are a large group of plants that produce seed pods that split along two opposite sides when they ripen. Legumes include beans (including kidney beans, cannellini beans, navy beans, fava beans, pinto beans, and black-eyed peas), peas, lentils, green beans, soybeans, chickpeas, broad beans, alfalfa, clover, and lupine (Polak, Phillips, & Campbell, 2015; Tang et al., 2020). Some legumes are consumed fresh such as peas, soybeans, green beans, and dried beans, also referred to as pulses, and represent several varieties of seeds, normally left in the pod until they mature and are subsequently shelled and dried (Figure 4.5).
Legumes
Published in Christopher Cumo, Ancestral Diets and Nutrition, 2020
On their own, beans’ nutrients depend on type. For example, 100 grams of white kidney beans have 9 grams of protein.141 The same amount of black, cranberry, pinto, pink, navy, and red kidney beans have 8 grams, great northern beans have 7, and red beans have 6. One hundred grams of cowpeas has 6.6 grams of protein.142 Beans and cowpeas also furnish fiber, iron, potassium, phosphorus, copper, magnesium, manganese, and vitamins B1, B2, B6, and B9. One hundred grams of cranberry beans provide 46 percent of vitamin B9.143 The same quantity of cowpeas furnishes 44.5 percent of it.144
Introduction to Toxicology
Published in David Woolley, Adam Woolley, Practical Toxicology, 2017
When a substance is a potent toxicant, it is usually readily apparent from its effects on humans or other animals. The majority of debate comes at the lower end of the potency spectrum, particularly with synthetic chemicals such as pesticides, to which people are exposed at extremely low levels in everyday life. The bottom line is that we are exposed daily to thousands of chemicals, the majority of which occur naturally in our food and environment and about which very little is known in terms of toxicity. As far as food is concerned, as a result of culture and tradition, foods that are harmful are avoided or are treated specially before consumption. Thus, red kidney beans and cassava root are harmful, if they are not properly prepared before eating, due to the presence of toxins in the raw food. Fugu fish, a delicacy in Japan, requires careful removal of the skin, liver, and ovaries, which contain a potent nerve poison, tetrodotoxin, to which there is no antidote. Equally, there are ancient remedies, such as some herbal teas, which were given to people who were ill; the modern tendency to use these teas daily as health supplements can result in unwanted side effects. Thus, a traditional remedy may be safe when used as tradition indicates but becomes harmful, if used incorrectly or in combination. For instance, ginseng and gingko is a popular combination that was not used in history and can be associated with a range of side effects, including interaction with prescribed medicines.
The effects of modified anti-inflammatory diet on fatigue, quality of life, and inflammatory biomarkers in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients: a randomized clinical trial
Published in International Journal of Neuroscience, 2021
Zahra Mousavi-Shirazi-Fard, Zohreh Mazloom, Sadegh Izadi, Mohammad Fararouei
In the diet group, a diet was designed for each patient based on the anti-inflammatory diet [23]. In this regard, Harris-Benedict equation with the activity factor of 1.2–1.3 was used to calculate energy requirement [24]. Approximately 55% of energy was from carbohydrates, 15% from proteins, and 30% from fat. It should be noted that the diet was prescribed for weight maintenance. Abundant amounts of vegetables and fruits were included in the diet. Indeed, the patients were advised to substitute white rice with brown rice, white bread with whole wheat bread, and high fat dairy products with probiotic low fat products. Legumes such as lentils, mung beans, pinto beans, chickpeas, and kidney beans, and soy products such as soybeans, soy milk, and soy protein were recommended, as well. Healthy fats, such as olive oil (extra-virgin olive oil) and canola, were also included in the diet for cooking or salad dressing. Besides, nuts such as walnut and almond and seeds like flax, pumpkin, and sesame seeds were advised and replaced for butter and cream. Spices such as ginger, cinnamon, and turmeric were also recommended in great amounts. White or green tea and moderate amounts of dark chocolate were recommended, as well. Protein sources such as lean poultry and fish were, too, considered in the diet. However, the consumption of lean red meat and eggs were limited to one to two times a week. Refined carbohydrates and sucrose-containing products such as pastries, cookies, cakes, and table sugar, processed food, fast food, fried food, and animal fat were not recommended, as well.
Kidney-bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris) Dependent, Exercise-induced Anaphylaxis in Patients Comorbid with Mugwort (Artemisia Vulgaris) Pollinosis
Published in Immunological Investigations, 2021
The present study evaluated the allergenicity of patients with kidney-bean-induced anaphylaxis that was comorbid with mugwort pollinosis. Patients’ sera were sensitive to both mugwort pollen and kidney bean extracts. Immunoblotting analysis revealed a 100% positivity of crude mugwort pollen extract, and a 83.3% positivity of crude kidney bean extract of patients’ sera. Both mugwort and kidney beans presented reactive proteins with a molecular weight of ~60 kDa and 10–15 kDa. The ~26 kDa protein in mugwort and 30 kDa protein in kidney beans might consist of the same components. Immunoblot-inhibition assay further suggested the cross-reactivity between mugwort and kidney beans. All of these findings implicated the 26–30 kDa, 10–15 kDa, and 60 kDa proteins as potential causative agents of the cross-reactivity between mugwort and kidney beans. These findings are clinically important, because kidney beans are one of the most common foods in China, and in kidney beans, few allergens have been found to induce allergic diseases. No reports about the cross-reactivity between mugwort and kidney bean have been published; therefore, this study evaluated for the first time such cross-reactivity in clinical patients.
Motivators, Barriers and Other Factors Related to Bean Consumption in Older Adults
Published in Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2019
Katarina M. Doma, Emily L. Farrell, Erin R. Leith-Bailey, Victoria D. Soucier, Alison M. Duncan
Canned beans were consumed by the majority of all participants, consistent with a previous study in Canadian adults (n = 1,100) reporting that canned whole beans are the most frequently purchased type for home consumption17 and another study in low-income women (n = 158) reporting that the majority (65.7%) purchase canned beans.33 The current study suggests; however, that bean consumers are more knowledgeable than bean non-consumers about how to buy and prepare beans since they were significantly more likely to rinse those canned beans and buy low sodium or no added salt canned beans, as well as buy dried bagged beans. Several bean varieties were more frequently identified in terms of awareness and consumption by bean consumers in the current study, likely due to their greater usage of beans and therefore, greater likelihood of exploring and trying new varieties. Despite significant differences between bean consumers and non-consumers for consumption of several bean varieties (adzuki, black, cranberry, fava, great northern, pinto, white kidney), there were some more common bean varieties (dark red kidney, light red kidney, navy) that were consumed by the majority of both bean consumers and non-consumers. This is consistent with kidney beans and navy beans being among the major bean varieties that Canadians reported being aware of, consuming and had purchased in the past 3 months3,37 as well as those consumed by American adults.38,39