The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
lectins can induce in vitro release of interleukin-4 and interleukin-13 from human basophils dietary lectins present beans and other edible plant parts pose a threat to consumers due to their capacity to induce histamine release from basophils
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concatenate a lectin phytohemoglutenin from red kidney beans um and sambucus agglutinin that is elderberry and you see here that they triggered human basophils immune cells to release inflammatory cytokines interleukins they can enter circulation after the oral phase they're now this is going to happen in everyone basophils don't have ablood granite blood group antigens in the same way that red blood cells do there's no difference in blood type in your basophils no matter who you are these lectins from lentils from red kidney beans from elderberry are likely going to be triggering histamine release interleukin release triggering inflammation in all humans in all humans