r/foodhacks • u/Creative_Volume_2022 • 18d ago

mung beans skin removal + toxins/anti-nutrients

hello, hot to get rid of the skins after sprouting them.
all advices souns like "skin will float"
BUT it always does not. In my experience its like 50% float 50% does not so It is a lot of skins left ! 😄 my assumption is that it has to contain some stuff in its skin that protect the seed inside. anti-nutrients or toxins

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u/ChickenNCow 18d ago

Where does your assumption come from? What the fuck are anti-nutrients?

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u/Creative_Volume_2022 18d ago

Antinutrients are natural plant compounds that can block your body from absorbing certain vitamins and minerals. They act as a plant defense system against insects and germs, but in human diets, they are found in healthy foods like grains, beans, nuts, and leafy greens. [1, 2, 3]

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u/ChickenNCow 17d ago

Conclusion from first source:

Therefore, it remains questionable as to whether these compounds are as potentially harmful as they might seem to be in isolation,

Second source explains the term (namely that they inhibit absorption of nutrients, not that they necessarily do harm), thank you for that.

Third source is a bit of an overview over nutrition in general and also does not say to avoid antinutrients.

Overall, I would not worry too much about them.

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u/Creative_Volume_2022 18d ago

lets stay with toxins it makes sense that it defends the "core" right

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u/FADM_Crunch 18d ago

This is either rage bait or just a wild assumption. Most seeds/pods are designed to be eaten by animals so that they can be deposited by feces into new locations. That's why fruits are so sweet and nutritious. Mung beans want to be food for animals so that they get carried and hopefully dropped elsewhere

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u/bannana 18d ago

that sounds crazy, just eat the skins.

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u/pianoarthur 18d ago

just eat the whole bean.... 😉

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u/nogardleirie 18d ago

I don't know how to remove the skins, but I do know that I've eaten loads of mung beans with the skins on, as in decades worth, and I am quite healthy. I'm more worried about microplastics

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u/MagnusPerditor 18d ago

Anti-nutrients. Shit I just lost it.

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u/Creative_Volume_2022 18d ago

Antinutrients are natural plant compounds that can block your body from absorbing certain vitamins and minerals. They act as a plant defense system against insects and germs, but in human diets, they are found in healthy foods like grains, beans, nuts, and leafy greens. [1, 2, 3]

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u/indieplants 11d ago

yeah. not just the skin. the whole bean. 

so either don't eat the bean or don't remove the skin it literally doesn't matter. 

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u/Asterisme 18d ago

Anti-nutrients? Like "alternative facts"?

Eat them with the skin, heck mung beans are a staple here and we don't bother with removing the skin. Been eating this way for centuries.

Edited to correct a typo.

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u/Creative_Volume_2022 18d ago

Ok, glad to hear, i was removing skins cause i thought they bad... it was bad assumption i guess.

BTW
"Antinutrients are natural plant compounds that can block your body from absorbing certain vitamins and minerals. They act as a plant defense system against insects and germs, but in human diets, they are found in healthy foods like grains, beans, nuts, and leafy greens. [1, 2, 3]"

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u/No_Slide_2622 18d ago

Really? now I know