Vegan food firm's lentil snack that could cause LIVER DAMAGE
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A vegan food delivery company has recalled one of its products after customers took to social media to complain about it making them violently ill.

  • One TikTok influencer said in a video: 'I have never had a health issue before until literally I ate this'

  • While a Boston man who ate the lentils says doctors are 'seriously considering' removing his gallbladder'

  • The company counts Gwyneth Paltrow, Serena Williams, Bobby Flay, Blake Griffin and Carmelo Anthony among its celebrity investors

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    2 years ago

    Do you have a source for that or is it speculation? Seems possible but I didn't think that lectin toxicity presented with the symptoms people have been experiencing

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Seems textbook to me. Liver failure from the body attacking its own cells from an overdose of lectin. If they had a ton of uncooked lentils in it it could really fuck you up. One site says that it is unclear if the lentils were unprepared, the instructions say it must be cooked to an internal temp of 165 but most people won't have the tools for that.

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        2 years ago

        Ah huh most of the symptoms I remember reading about were gallbladder related but that's a good point. Just seems like that would've been an easy thing to determine conclusively by now

        • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          An interesting fact is that the gallbladder has lots of lectin binding sites that could lead to inflammation or blockage of cystic ducts (leading to a form of gallbladder disease). Similar research has been done towards lectin from wheat germ and how it can impact the gut as well.