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Post #4453290
2026-08-08 18:54 UTC
Forty percent protein by dry weight. That's among the highest of any plant food there is, and it costs less than a cup of coffee.
Lupini fed Mediterranean and Andean households for thousands of years before an American grocery store decided they were a novelty in a jar by the olives.
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org 2026-08-08 18:55
Raw they're bitter — quinolizidine alkaloids, days of soaking and rinsing — so buy them brined, rinse them, pop them out of their skins, and hit them with olive oil, lemon and far more black pepper than feels reasonable. Two cautions I won't bury: lupin is a recognized allergen with real cross-reactivity to peanut, so if peanuts are a problem in your house then this is too. And the ornamental lupines in the flower bed are a different species and genuinely toxic. 2/3