{"id":19366,"date":"2020-01-01T07:09:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T13:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/?p=19366"},"modified":"2020-03-06T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:24:07","slug":"new-year-dishes-and-food-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/food-safety-news\/new-year-dishes-and-food-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Traditional Dishes and Food Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"
There are certain foods prepared specifically for New Year’s Day that are considered to bring good luck.<\/p>\n
People’s new year, good luck, food traditions around the globe vary with local culture and cuisine, but the general theme is the same: People share food and drink with family and friends to usher in a new year of prosperity.<\/p>\n
In the U.S., mainly the South, cowpeas (black-eyed peas) and beans are some of the typical traditional foods served on New Year’s Day. These food items symbolize coins or wealth and are thought to bring luck and prosperity in the New Year.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n But, beans need to be cooked properly or a food illness will occur. Beans are high in protein, dietary fiber, many minerals, and low in fat and cholesterol. But they also contain a protein that can be toxic in higher concentrations, when beans are eaten raw. Kidney beans in particular contain enough of this toxin to cause acute symptoms, even if only a few raw beans are consumed.<\/p>\n Black-eyed peas are actually not peas at all, but rather a variety of bean related to the cowpea and categorized as legumes, having both edible seeds and pods.<\/p>\n Uncooked beans contain a natural protein toxin called lectins, specifically phytohaemagglutinin, also called PHA, which is harmful to humans and causes food illness. Kidney beans have the highest concentrations of this toxin \u2013 especially red kidney beans.<\/p>\n The toxin is only neutralized by a least 10 minutes of cooking at boiling temperature (212\u00b0F or 100\u00b0C). The temperature of cooking beans must be boiling or they can be more harmful. Undercooked beans, which are beans that have been cooked at temperatures not reaching boiling, such as in a slow cooker, can be more toxic than raw ones.<\/p>\n The FDA also recommends soaking the beans for five hours to remove any residual toxins and then tossing the water out.<\/p>\n Beans are categorized as a type of foodborne illness called foodborne intoxication.<\/p>\n Foodborne intoxication is caused by consuming food containing either natural toxins or by poisonous chemicals. Toxins are also the natural part of some plants and mushrooms. Some seafood has toxins including ciguatera and scombroid.<\/p>\n\t\t
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Raw and Undercooked Bean Hazards<\/h3>\n
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