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I just found this article that seems to sum up my skepticism, basically it says "raw beans" can cause lectin-poisoning, not all lectins even seem to be harmful,

• Nomentatus 9y ago
  I eat a lot of cooked beans (and oats, sometimes) - lectins and other toxins are how plants defend their seed (etc, but seeds are obviously critical for reproduction.) Toxins are quite common in foods, and we deal with most of them well, even raw. Cooking was a massive advance for homo sapiens because it destroys most of these toxins, breaking up large molecules in general. Some plants have more durable toxins than others. Oats are at one extreme end of the spectrum, in good part because seeds are usually small and easier to heavily defend than, say, a root such as a carrot. It's that simple.
  • allover 9y ago
    So people might be allergic to raw oats, but almost no-one ever buys/consumes raw oats right? Maybe I just jumped the gun and assumed you were making some quack-ish comment that we're all having some kind of micro-allergy everytime we consume oats, when actually you were really just saying people are allergic to raw oats. Apologies. I just had a similar convo with someone that said 'carbs are bad because inflammation' so that probably gave me a hair trigger.