/ck/ - Food & Cooking

My mom has always had a pot of beans on the stove. 24/7/365. She only reheats it once every 24 hours. The pot is usually there for a week before it runs out. Then she repeats the process. She's been doing this for dozens and dozens of years as far as I know. Probably her mom too. Is this safe? Should I be worried? My parents have never gotten sick because of it as far as I know.

>>6571800

The idea with that was that switching from a saturated fat to an (poly)unsaturated fat would be better for you, and the idea wasn't really tested before its promotion. Turns out artificially saturating an unsaturated fat is even worse than eating a regular saturated fat, even though regular saturated fats are still shit for you. Best to just eat natural, unmodified plant fats like nuts and avocado.

There's not really a comparable situation with meat. Swap meat out for some beans and all the evidence in the world is in favor of your health improving. I'm eating some black beans right now, it's delicious. Then I'm going to use some of the broth from cooking them to make a quick gravy, and use that to flavor some yellow-eyed peas

>>6093794

Beans are some of the healthiest foods you can eat, and they're also damned tasty

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15228991