Lupin Flour=Lupine Flower?
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bakingbarb
Location: Washington, Western
Posted: Apr-08-2005 at 11:57pm
If you go to google news and do a search for lupin flour it will bring up articles about it causing allergic reactions for people allergic to peanuts. Ok so this peaked my intrest, as a kid reading wildflowers of Alaska, did I not read that Lupine is posion? Was it the seeds or the whole thing? This is a form of lupine they make this from, Lupinus albus. So this is very interesting what do you all think about this?
~BakingBarb
Garden Spider
Location: Washington, Puget Sound Corridor
Posted: Apr-09-2005 at 7:50am
I did a quick Google search, and found that the Lupine genus contains over 500 members. Lupinus albus is also called Sweet Lupine, and has been used in Europe to make flour since Roman times. It must be a non-toxic Lupine species.
It's not unusual for a large genus to contain both toxic and non-toxic species. Potatoes and tomatoes are relatrives of deadly nightshade.
bakingbarb
Location: Washington, Western
Posted: Apr-10-2005 at 10:20am
Hmmmmmm I forgot about the tomato thing. I did know some people that were allergic to the nightshade family. Made for some difficult eating when out, and all their friends had to be made well aware of it when entertaining.
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