[Sca-cooks] Broad beans (Fava)

[johnna holloway]

I hate to mention it but fava beans are associated with
Favism. This description from a UC/Davis website.

Favism is an inherited disorder of certain individuals,
particularly of southern European origin. These people
have an enzyme deficiency expressed when fava beans
are eaten, especially raw or partially cooked. Symptoms
commonly include acute toxic hepatitis and those similar
to influenza. Males are more commonly affected than females;
mortality is almost entirely confined to children.
Fava plant pollen in the respiratory tract also affects these people.
http://www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/pubs/brochures/favabean.html

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

Elaine Koogler wrote:
>> The only problem there is that those are ones that have been shelled.  I don't
> think I've ever seen the ones still in the hull (so they can be served sort of
> like string beans) that have been canned.
>> Kiri
>
> Olwen the Odd wrote:
>> > Or in a can.  Spanish markets would have them.
> > Olwen
> >> > >I did manage to find fava beans...I think that's the modern name for
> > >this....still in their green shells, frozen, a number of years ago.  I
> > >haven't seen them recently, but you might check with the buyer for frozen
> > >foods for your local supermarket.> > >Kiri
> > >
> > >Elizabeth A Heckert wrote: Gentle Cousins; > > >
> > > >           Vicia faba is the latin name for 'broad' beans.  Does anyone
> > > > know what you would look for in the grocery store (in the US) that is a
> > > > broad bean?  Is there another common name that it is marketed as, I
> > >mean. Thanks!    Elizabeth