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02.10.2023 - 06:17 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A woman gave herself a horrific bout of food poisoning after making a mistake while using her slow cooker.
While making a vegan stew, Anne Sullivan found a white bean stew recipe and followed all the instructions to the letter.
These included pre-soaking the beans, then letting them simmer all day in the slow cooker, reports the Mirror.
She found, however, that seven hours later the beans were still the same size. Anne still took a bowlful of the stew with her to work and ate it, but found the beans to be "tough and chewy".
She began to feel faint and dizzy, adding: "I must have looked awful, too, because my boss told me to go home and get some sleep. I felt like throwing up."
She began to feel a bit better and the next day served up more of the stew for both her and her partner. During the meal, her boyfriend wondered if it was the beans which had made Anne feel unwell. Abandoning the stew, they went to leave the house, when the symptoms Anne had previously felt returned.
Although she had pre-soaked the beans and let them stew for hours, they were still undercooked. This meant a naturally occurring toxin called phytohaemagglutinin was present, causing symptoms like diarrhoea, dizziness and nausea.
Anne found that what she should have done was soak the beans for five hours, drained, rinsed then boiled them for ten minutes. Putting them in the slow cooker straight increased the toxin levels.
She added: "I had no idea - I think most people assume beans will cook in a slow cooker. Most recipes seem to assume you're using canned beans, which are fully cooked."
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