Lupin beans are back on the dinner table. Ancient Egyptians and Romans ate them, the Portuguese still love them as a snack, and the Dutch enjoy the exuberant flowers of the lupin plant in their backyards.
And now the lupin bean could prove a sustainable solution to the global food crisis. Dutch MP Marianne Thieme of the Animal Rights Party is sure, seeing her tweet: "a meat roll made of soybeans and lupine can be good too". But how does it look, and taste?
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One report reacting to this and an extended post on facebook says the beans must be soaked in brine for 5 days with the brine changed twice daily as they are POISONOUS WHEN RAW.
I don't know of this but post it as fair warning to do some more research.
Eat hearty!
I think it's fantastic, that there are free thinkers of a third kind, in many ways true genious in applying moral conscience and science, to help Mother Earth, the animals that suffer by the billions, and of course in the final analysis the Human Species. Another genial step toward a more compassionate and sustainable way of life. Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jasmin Horst Seiler
Most of the soy farmed in South America does not go to vegetarian products, it becomes (1) cattle feed and (2) filler for fast-food style hamburgers such as McDonald's.
Many successful soy products on the NA markets contain either US or Canadian grown soybeans.
Lupins are very low in starch/oligosaccharides and all enzyme inhibitors/antinutritional factors that can be found in soy - http://www.lupins.org/feed/
So you won't have to worry about gas. The truth about soy and testosterone is that it has little effect unless you're consuming vast amounts of soy all the time (like a pint of soy milk per day). Search pubmed.gov - the evidence is pretty overwhelmingly in favor of soy though the Weston A Price Foundation would like you to believe differently.
Lupins are very low in starch/oligosaccharides and all enzyme inhibitors/antinutritional factors that can be found in soy - http://www.lupins.org/feed/
So you won't have to worry about gas. The truth about soy and testosterone is that it has little effect unless you're consuming vast amounts of soy all the time (like a pint of soy milk per day). Search pubmed.gov - the evidence is pretty overwhelmingly in favor of soy though the Weston A Price Foundation would like you to believe differently.
Adding ginger to meals as flavour or as a drink should help your wind. Indian medicine has solved this to a great extent.
The real problem with all legumes --beans, soybeans, peas, chickpeas, lima beans-- is that they're explosively flatulent and the only solution to that is eating them along with certain digestive enzimes, but I don't think these are universally available.
Lupin beans are a great substitute for meat. But soya's role is doubtful-affects testosterone levels and is a cause of infertility in males, moreover, not good for women having fibroids because of high estrogen levels in it..
Indeed, the anti-soy myths are just that: myths. None of these claims have been verified. Check out John Robbins' essay on the debate:
http://www.johnrobbins.info/blog/what-about-soy/
Has all this been truly verified? There seems to be tons of disinformation deliberately circulated by meat producers fearing the recent vegetarian trend. People in some countries have eaten substantial amounts of soy for centuries, and continued to do so without concern over health problems. I hope more unbiased studies on soy that are not biased due to the financial/market interests of meat industries will be done.
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