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Originally Posted by mobertol
Red Kidney Bean Poisoning is an illness caused by a toxic agent, Phytohaemagglutnin (Kidney Bean Lectin). This toxic agent is found in many species of beans, but it is in highest concentration in red kidney beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris).
As few as 4 or 5 beans can bring on symptoms. Onset of symptoms varies from between 1 to 3 hours. Onset is usually marked by extreme nausea, followed by vomiting, which may be very severe, some persons report abdominal pain. Some persons have been hospitalized, but recovery is usually rapid (3 - 4 h after onset of symptoms) and spontaneous.
You have to be very careful how you cook dried red kidney beans -in a way it's my own fault as I'm supposed to avoid all legumes as it can trigger off IBS which I have bouts of occasionally (also shouldn't eat mushrooms, like you, any brassicas or leafy things like spinach -I love them so only have tiny amounts from time to time, but spinach i can't touch as it makes me really ill...)
It's hard when you're staying with other people as they have their own way of doing things -home now anyway -still have abdominal pain from the beans but it's passing off and am feeling better now i'm back to cooking for myself. Diet as from today, back to healthy soups, absolutely no cheese or wine and tea without sugar -the hardest thing to do without for me! Put half a stone on in the UK with all the scones, cakes and take-aways!
As to tomatoes, we have them from Sardinia, grown in hot-houses available from March -they are great. In the summer they grow behind my house like weeds and have fantastic flavour...all they need is sunshine 
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I didn't mention the careful cooking as I assumed if they had been undercooked then your friend and hubby might have suffered too... also I though they might have been out of a tin.
We've had quite a few takeaways and ready meals while I've been ill - they are usually either hopelessly bland or overspiced with the ubiquitous chilli - to cover up the blandness!
Glad you're feeling better and you can send me some of that half a stone - had antibiotics two weeks ago, made me nauseous and unable to eat much so I missed my target with my dietitian.
At least you're back in the land of healthy eating - perhaps you should send your friend an Italian cookbook? Those tomatoes sound yummy - I remember when we were in Italy in 2009 they were all over the fields - presumably the ones they didn't pick up after harvesting - or waiting to go into a tin of Sainsbury's basic tinned plum tomatoes?