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Re:Meal Kit company sued by customers whose gallbladders wer... by FuriouslyAdrift on Friday July 01, 2022 @05:58PM (#31953556)
In addition, eating a diet that primarily consists of chickpeas can cause a non-reversible neurological disease... usually not seen except during famines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurolathyrism

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Re:Meal Kit company sued by customers whose gallbladders wer... by jkqwzsoo on Friday July 01, 2022 @07:10PM (#31954236)
Incorrect. It's chickling peas, not chickpeas, that cause illness. Chickpeas are fine to eat, as evidenced by the billion+ people who are eating them every day, particularly in the subcontinent.
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Re:Meal Kit company sued by customers whose gallbladders wer... by WheelsAtLarge on Friday July 01, 2022 @07:28PM (#31954380)
Had no clue there are 2 similar sounding peas.

Anyway, I found this for chickling peas (aka grass peas and cicerchia ):

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-69083-9_...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/07/why-do-po...

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Re:Meal Kit company sued by customers whose gallbladders wer... by nyanpasu64 on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:07PM (#31953635)
You had me scared for a moment. As far as I can tell, neurolathyrism is caused by plants of genus Lathyrus, which is different from (though the same family as) actual chickpeas of genus Cicer. I sure hope real chickpeas don't cause neural damage.
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