Fava bean

Raw soybeans also maybe used as a supplemental protein source. Dry beans, ie, beans normally harvested in the green / imm a tiire state, fava beans, lupins, field peas, lentils, and other grain legumes are potential supplemental protein sources however, several of these may have deleterious effects, predominantly enzyme inhibition, on the animal. The supply of each is limited (5). 

Fruits and vegetables Avocado Fava beans figs Raisins Bananas... 

Fava beans (broad beans, Vida faba) contain a significant amount of L-DOPA. Anecdotal reports have noted improvement of Parkinson s disease after the consumption of fava beans (Spengos and Vassilopoulos 1988). Rabey and colleagues (1992,1993) have demonstrated the efficacy of fava beans in this respect. 

Six patients with Parkinson s disease were withdrawn from their antiparkinsonian medications (L-DOPA/carbidopa, bromocriptine, or lisuride) (Rabey et al. 1992, 1993). After 12 hours off medication, the subjects ate 250 g of cooked fava beans. Significant improvements in motor symptoms were noted, comparable to those seen with 125 mg of L-DOPA and 12.5 mg of carbidopa. In fact, three subjects developed severe dyskinesias after fava ingestion, akin to those seen after larger doses of pharmaceutical L-DOPA. Plasma levels of L-DOPA increased after fava ingestion in a manner comparable to that seen with administration of oral L-DOPA. These results suggest that the L-DOPA contained in fava beans was transported into the CNS and converted to dopamine. In five nonparkinsonian, healthy volunteers, a similar increase in plasma L-DOPA was observed after fava ingestion, although much lower. The difference in plasma L-DOPA between normal volunteers and parkinsonian patients is apparently due to a residual effect of carbidopa in the subjects with Parkinson s disease. Without carbidopa, the L-DOPA from fava is rapidly converted to dopamine in the blood stream and never crosses the blood-brain barrier. 

Broad bears, corrmonly called fava beans, are common to diets in Mediterranean countries (Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Turkey), in which their ingestion may cause severe hemolysis in G6PDH individuals. Clinically, the condition presents as pallor, hemoglobinuria, jaundice, and severe anemia 24-48 hours after ingestion of the beans. 

Persons with mutations that partially destroy G6PDH activity may develop an acute, episodic hemolysis. Certain mutations affect the stability of G6PDH, and, because erythrocytes cannot synthesize proteins, the enzyme is gradually lost over time and older red blood cells lyse. This process is accelerated by certain drugs and, in a subset of patients, ingestion of fava beans. In the United States, the most likely cause of a hemolytic episode in these patients is overwhelming infection, often pneumonia (viral and bacterial) or infectious hepatitis. 

Anthraquinone glycosides found in senna (Cassia fistulosa) and Aloe spp. have been included in some commercial cathartics. Vicine is a glycoside in fava beans (Vida faba), and causes hemolytic anemia in people who have a genetic deficiency of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in their red blood cells. Fava beans are grown as a protein supplement for livestock. 

From far left) Crops through the year Fava beans, here in flower, are one of the first major orops of the year. Summer is a time for salad leaves and tender young vegetables, while pumpkins and squash soak up the sun to ripen in fall. Hardy Brussels sprouts are a reliable winter stalwart. 

Plot 1 Tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers, then to overwinter, garlic, onions, and fava beans. 

Plot 4 The onions, garlic, and fava beans planted the year before (see Plot 1). Grow salads over winter. Add leaf mold in spring. 

The vegetable crops of this family are grown primarily for their fleshy pods and/or seeds. Peas and fava beans are hardy, cool-season crops, growing best below 60°F (15°C). String beans and runner beans are frost-tender and need warmer conditions (although runner beans cannot stand dry soil). Young fava bean pods and shoot tips can be eaten, but the seeds are the main crop. Traditionally, peas are shelled from their pods, but snow peas and sugarsnap pods are eaten whole. 

Aphids on fava beans The black bean aphid is a common pest of fava beans, congregating on the tender shoot tips to pierce the plant and suck sap. If you nip out the shoot tips, the aphids usually shun the less palatable older growth. 

Tall nonclimbing vegetables, such as taller varieties of Brussels sprouts, sprouting broccoli, and fava beans, may need the support of sturdy stakes—sprouts especially so if they are planted in an exposed, windy spot. 

What to do Earlier sowings of fava beans are less susceptible to attack. Pinch out tips of fava bean plants in May or early June, or when pests are seen. Remove heavily infested plants. See also Aphids. 

What to do Earwigs do not usually travel far, so clearing up debris where they might hide, and trapping, can make a local difference. Trap earwigs in overturned flower pots stuffed with straw and placed on top of a cane, or in lengths of dry fava bean stalk, or in a "lacewing hotel" (see pp.112-113). 

Susceptible plants Peas, fava bean also related plants. 

Hemolytic anemia can be caused by eating foods (such as fava beans) or taking drugs (such as anti-malarial agents or acetaminophen) that have oxidizing properties. 

All foods diat may be spoiled Fava beans and broad bean pods Meat extracts (e.g., Bovril)... 

Broad beans, fava beans Negligible (but contains dopamine)... 

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