[Sca-cooks] Broad beans (Fava)

[Ted Eisenstein]

>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.

. . . . not to mention that eating them with a nice Chianti might
lead to cannibalism. . .

Alban