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Re:The Impossible Burger by legulere on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @05:08PM (#15298270)
If you look into the superfamily of globulins, globular proteins you can even find the highly toxic ricin.

Also wikipedia states about non-human globulins that "these proteins can cause allergic reactions if they bind with human IgE antibodies." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globulin#Nonhuman_globulins

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Re:The Impossible Burger by davidmanescu on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @07:22PM (#15299241)
I would expect these are broken down by enzymes in the mouth/gut long before they have a shot at entering the bloodstream to bind with any antibodies.
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