Just noticed that post 🧵/3 about #edibleLupins appears twice, bcs the first version disappeared before I'd finished making it. But only the other one continues on to the 4th in the thread, which hardly anyone noticed, on prep as food. I thought maybe it was a bit too radical bcs not much response 🤯 so, here a working link 🧵 /4 ⬇️
https://climatejustice.social/@wavesculptor/115913414587822103

#edibleLupins #nutrition #growYourOwn #essentialFattyAcids

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Preparation? To remove the alkaloid content -- a good pest inhibitor - I leached them NOT in the trad, slow whole beans way with brine*, but briefly macerated them and soaked them in cold sterile water in the fridge. Needed just a week, not months, and 4-5 water changes. Decanting carefully not to loose the solids which floculate and sink, retaining the valuable nutrients. No salt load, and no heat to compromise the fragile essential fatty acids. When the *drained* water tasted sweet, not bitter, I knew they were done. Most batches did not even begin to ferment. If you like fermenting, you could play with this towards the end of the leaching. I consumed them mostly as raw green "smoothies", made with a fast blender and little else. Easy on my fussy digestion, mild inoffensive flavour and big, sustained energy and clarity boost with no downer.

*Brining anywhere without a public sewer leaves the problem of the phyto-toxic waste, besides the residual sodium overload on the body.

#edibleLupins #nutrition #growYourOwn #essentialFattyAcids