Talk:Vicia faba

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Contents 1 MAOI 2 "Bean" 3 Copyvio 4 Fava bean 5 Capitalization 6 pythagoras 7 Pop Culture 8 Cooking 9 raw pods

[edit] MAOI

As far as I've read, the problem with broad beans and MAOI's is not just tyramine content, but in fact also a significant content of levo-dopa, which could conceivably also cause the same kind of hypertensive crises, since dopamine is a precursor to norepinephrine. Can anyone confirm this?

[edit] "Bean"

The article Cowpea seems to directly contradict the statement here that all pre-Columbian European references to beans are to Vicia. Anybody have any thoughts on this? Pekinensis 17:20, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Vigna hasn't always been a bean, many of its members were relatively recently moved from the genus Phaseolus. Many Vigna species are most commonly referred to as peas (like the cowpea), and some as beans. This could explain some cofusion, if possible you may want to find out where that reference came from.--nixie 01:02, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio

I have noticed that parts of the first paragraph have been copied verbatim from the book The Vegetable & Herb Expert by Dr D.G.Hessayon (ISBN 0-903-50546-0).

The part that I noticed was exactly the same was the third paragraph of the introduction. The rest of the introduction is clearly paraphrasing the passage from the book.

I'm new to this and so I'm not sure what needs to be done. It seems a shame to delete manifestly interesting and useful information, but on the other hand it is passing off Dr Hessayon's work as original.

Any suggestions? Moormand

Please remove the offending information, rephrase it and insert Dr Hessayon's work as a reference. JFW | T@lk 20:51, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

OK, done. Dave 18:36, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well done Dave, thanks very much! JFW | T@lk 22:02, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fava bean

Fava bean is an extremely common name for this bean, even if not in Britain. Just google it. I think it is reasonable to move the article to Vicia faba, but to delete all but one use of the term "Fava bean", even to the extent of altering a quote, is really too much. -- WormRunner | Talk 17:15, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Agreed it was an error to remove it from the quote. But Fava bean isn't much used globally; this page before had a very strong US-POV to the near-complete absence of any world view for a world crop. Other countries (check google for "vicia faba" at e.g. .au, .za, reveals broad bean, faba bean, tic bean as the common names; the last two weren't even mentioned at all (but now added) - MPF 19:05, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalization

Capitalizing the words Broad Bean, etc. looks very odd--it gives it the appearance of a proper noun. Does anyone object to switching over to a consistent lowercase style instead, as is typical of other biological entries? Scentoni 19:36, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] pythagoras

about pythagoras and beans look also at history of vegetarianism, it's regarded to be part of his version of vegetarianism. --fs 19:45, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pop Culture

Hannibal has eaten fava beans along with his victims face. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.163.152.82 (talk) 02:34, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Cooking

Broad beans are generally boiled in water where I come from. I always assumed this is the typical way of cooking them. This page gives the impression that using them cooked is only done in Thailand... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Froggienation (talk • contribs) 20:35, 26 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] raw pods

I removed the following text and re-worded some of the rest of the Health issues section to cover the material:

Note: The pods of broad beans are reputed to be toxic when they're not cooked.

I'm assuming this is a (vague and perhaps slightly wrong, with respect to pod versus bean) reference to favism. But if this is in fact something distinct, please provide sources. Kingdon 21:52, 8 July 2007 (UTC)