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Don’t Try This Recipe At Home

Posted on May 22nd, 2006 by Marsha James in Diet Logs, Healthy Eating

A Japanese television network called Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) has apologized to viewers who became sick after cooking and eating a recipe that was aired on one of their shows.

The recipe called for a diet of white kidney beans mixed with rice. However the beans had to be roasted for roughly three minutes and then ground up into a white power before being mixed in.

Viewers are now being urged to not follow the recipe because nearly 160 of them became violently ill with symptoms that included vomiting and diarrhoea.

It turns out that while safe to eat the beans become toxic if not properly heated. The food poisoning was cause by a protein called lectin.

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  1. Best of Niner Niner June ‘06 | Niner Niner Sandbox said on June 10th, 2006 at 3:51 pm

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  4. Best of Niner Niner June ‘06 | Bookadoodle said on June 12th, 2006 at 12:31 pm

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  5. Best of Niner Niner June ‘06 said on June 12th, 2006 at 12:34 pm

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  6. The Single Life - Best of Niner Niner June ‘06 said on June 12th, 2006 at 12:37 pm

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