They look every inch a healthy food, and would be except that for many people they are actually toxic. If your ancestors hailed from a region suspect to malaria back in the day, you would inherit a trait that made you lack enzyme G6 PD. Favism would cause an allergic reaction in your body, the symptoms of which include diarrhea, hemolytic anemia (breakdown of your blood cells), and thus extreme fatigue.This affects mostly people from the Mediterranean and Africa. This evolved as a way of preventing the carrier of the G6 PD deficiency from Malaria, because the disease could not infect those with Favism.
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