Goomba38 wrote:
> JWBH wrote:
>> my son recently went to a friends house and was offered 'sprouted raw
>> chick peas'. but on my packet of dried chick peas for the
>> supermarket it says, 'do not eat raw'.
>>
>> when beans and legumes sprout do they then become less toxic?
> Many years ago when I sprouted things, if I recall, you bought special
> seeds for it.

I think that was for a different purpose. Apparently a lot of the dried
beans/seeds that you buy are processed at a high enough temperature
that they won't germinate. The "sprouting beans" are handled so that
they will germinate.