Kidney beans: Kidney beans, an edible legume. Scientific name vegetable bean, commonly known as two-season beans or four-season beans. Young pods or seeds can be used as fresh vegetables, can also be processed for canning, pickling, freezing and drying. It is a plant belonging to the Rosaceae family legume beans.
Kidney beans are nutritious food, but its seeds contain a toxic protein, which must be destroyed at high temperatures, so the consumption of kidney beans must be cooked and boiled through to eliminate its toxicity, better use of its nutritional benefits, otherwise it will cause poisoning. The incubation period of poisoning is more than an hour or so, usually no more than 5 hours, mainly gastroenteritis symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, but also dizziness, headache, chest tightness, cold sweat, panic, burning stomach, etc., the course of the disease is usually a few hours or 1 to 2 days, the general degree of poisoning can be self-cured, the serious need to seek medical treatment.