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The Lectin-free diet (also known as the Plant Paradox diet) is a fad diet promoted with the false claim that avoiding all foods that contain high amounts of lectins will prevent and cure disease. [1] There is no clinical evidence the lectin-free diet is effective to treat any disease and its claims have been criticized as pseudoscientific .
Sprouts growing in a verrine Mung bean sprouts in a bowl, grown without light to maintain its pale colour and reduce bitterness. Sprouts can be germinated at home or produced industrially. They are a prominent ingredient of a raw food diet and are common in Eastern Asian cuisine. Raw lentils contain lectins which can be reduced by sprouting or ...
Sprouted bread is a type of bread made from whole grains that have been allowed to sprout (i.e., to germinate before being milled into flour). There are a few different types of sprouted grain bread. There are a few different types of sprouted grain bread.
A Western diet is often high in omega-6 fatty acids, experts say, due to widely available seed oils often used to fry fast foods and manufacture the ultraprocessed foods that now make up about 70% ...
Breakfast (361 calories) 1 cup low-fat plain strained Greek-style yogurt. ¼ cup sliced almonds. ½ cup cherries. 1 serving No-Added-Sugar Chia Seed Jam. A.M. Snack (193 calories)
Steven Gundry proposed a lectin-free diet in his book The Plant Paradox (2017). It excludes a large range of commonplace foods including whole grains, legumes, and most fruit, as well as the nightshade vegetables: tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, bell peppers, and chili peppers. [25] [26] Gundry's claims about lectins are considered pseudoscience.
Breakfast (387 calories) 1 serving Mascarpone & Berries Toast. 2 eggs, scrambled. A.M. Snack (410 calories) 1 serving Anti-Inflammatory Cherry-Spinach Smoothie. Lunch (401 calories) 1 serving ...
Tandem galectins include galectin-4, -6, -8, -9 and -12. The final galectin is galectin-3 which is the only galectin found in the chimera category in vertebrates. Galectin-3 has one CRD and a long non-lectin domain. Galectin-3 can exist in monomeric form or can associate via the non-lectin domain into multivalent complexes up to a pentameric ...