Looks like fava beans have high Quinine.
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Would you have them with a nice Chianti?
Looks like fava beans have high Quinine.
some tonic water, too. Oddly enough, the brand I use is Q Tonic water
This is a slide, but also a cautionary one.
Ichabod; Fava Beans may also cause hemolytic anemia in certain people so people need to be cautious about eating them.
https://www.britannica.com/science/favism
Favism, a hereditary disorder involving an allergic-like reaction to the broad, or fava, bean (Vicia faba). Susceptible persons may develop a blood disorder (hemolytic anemia) by eating the beans, or even by walking through a field where the plants are in flower.
The known distribution of the disease is largely limited to people of Mediterranean origins (Spaniards, Italians, Greeks, Armenians, and Jews). Susceptibility to favism is inherited as a sex-linked trait and appears to be closely related to glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (q.v.).
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https://www.lateralmag.com/columns/gene-dosage/pythagoras-the-fava-of-pharmacogenomics
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“You’re probably thinking “Okay, great. What does this have to do with anything?” Well, dear reader, Pythagoras had a very good reason to resist crossing that fava bean field. Around 510 BC, Pythagoras noticed a connection between fava bean ingestion and haemolytic anaemia: a blood disorder that causes weakness and fatigue. This connection worried him so much that he forbade his followers from ever eating the Vicia faba. He declared the sacredness of the bean, admonishing those who dared to consider eating it. It appears to have truly frightened him. This fear was the reason Pythagoras refused to cross the field on that fateful day.
Pythagoras’ unfortunate end was not in vain. Fast-forwarding to 1956, Carson et al. discovered that there was indeed a link between fava bean ingestion and haemolytic anaemia. Their publication defined this condition as favism: a hereditary abnormality of the red cell enzyme. Pretty amazing, huh? Imagine your work being recognised 2,500 years after your death. You most likely won’t care at that point, but it’s still amazing. With this discovery, Pythagoras unwittingly founded a new area of medicine.”