Mange tout

[blossom]

This may sound like a stupid question, but can you eat mange tout raw? I saw a programme the other day where they were eating french beans? raw, and I hadn't realised you could, so it got me thinking.

thanks

[Lesley Jay]

I read somewhere that you shouldn't eat french beans raw.

[Peter]

Mangetout peas can be eaten raw.

The one bean you really should not eat raw is the kidney bean, as found in all good chilli's as it is toxic when raw and cooking is required to kill the toxin.

[Alice]

Hello Blossom, as Peter said don't eat raw kidney beans but as for green vegetables that come out of your garden that you would normally cook, you can eat them raw if you like. You can eat the grass. You just won't like it. My father in law ate the leaves off the cauliflowers. YUK!

[Jaxom]

I eat leaves off the cauliflowers. yum. two meals. day one the leaves, day two the curd.

[poultrychat]

I like raw mange tout also raw peas - ok I'm a bit weird

[bramble]

My mother always cooked the leaves of the caulie with the curds. Its just another helping of green to your daily total.

[blossom]

Thanks very much

[leona]

you can buy bags of fresh peas so not frozen at m n s i think. anyway, i get those and eat them cold out of the fridge for a snack. yum. i eat cougetts raw too if they are small especially round ones. ooh this is making me hungry now

[pigletwillie]

we sometimes chuck fresh podded peas into a salad, just as we do with raw mange tout. I often eat french beans straight off the plant.

[blossom]

you can buy bags of fresh peas so not frozen at m n s i think. anyway, i get those and eat them cold out of the fridge for a snack. yum. i eat cougetts raw too if they are small especially round ones. ooh this is making me hungry now

I saw a packet of courgette seeds today which said great raw (they were the small round type). You learn something new everyday.

[nick the grief]

I grew peas last year & my wife was disapointed as we had complete crop failure ...... well, none made it home anyway

[lyndap]

I must admit to eating peas before they get home,also love raw on a salad, with lovely cooked/baked sweet potatoe(haven't tried growing the sweet potatoes myself-they only shop bought!)

[blossom]

I had my first raw mange tout and it was LOVELY. I may give up cooking with them and use them as a salad veg. Mmmmm

[WiZeR]

ive grown mange tout purley to eat raw... allotment lunch