Green fresh peas, are they full of enzyme inhibitors? Or just the dried ones?

What does the enzyme inhibitors if we eat them?

Give you a stomache ache probably.

Personally I like peas. My man Dave grew some sugar snap ones once. Good stuff.

Not a staple of mine though.

The sweet green peas (sugar snap?) is sooooo good, but if it contains enzyme inhibitors, is it so healthy as it tastes good?

Does every fresh pea, bean and lentil contain enzyme inhibitors. I am asking because when you dry them and sell them in stores, people say they contain enzyme inhibitors?

OR?

I thought that inhibitors were in dried seeds and nuts to prevent them from sprouting and growing. If you leave green peas without refrigiration it will spoils because it has no inhibitors.

So all peas, lentils, beans doesn't contain enzyme inhibitors?

So when you buy dried peas, lentils and beans, they keep intact thanks to the dryness, and not the inhibitors?

There is nothing to inhibit in fresh green peas, only in dry peas
here is a definition from [www.sproutpeople.com]

Enzyme

Any of numerous proteins or conjugated proteins produced by living organisms and functioning as biochemical catalysts. All Mammals - including Human Beings - and many other living creatures, require Enzymes for ALL cellular function. No Enzymes = no life.

There is a theory which says humans have a given amount of Enzymes (like women have all their eggs at birth), that we MUST consume Enzymes to survive and prosper. Enzymes come from raw and living foods. Eating raw and living foods provides us with these vital proteins. Eating dead food uses our body's limited store of Enzymes. Eat More Sprouts!


Enzyme Inhibitor

A substance that stops an enzyme reaction. Dormant (dry) seeds remain dormant because of their Enzyme Inhibitors. Humans (and our pets - as the Bird People and the BARF (Bones And Raw Food) Dog People know) eat way too many "dead foods" - foods without Enzymes.

Once a seed soaks its Enzyme Inhibitors are no more. Soaked and Sprouted Seeds are LIVING FOOD - they contain their own Enzymes and so require none from your body - or as we say - Sprouts digest themselves.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/2006 12:58PM by djatchi.