“…Humans consume a significant amount of lectins as part of their daily diet. Although many of the dietary lectins are inactivated by proper heat treatment, some lectins found in wheat bran, wheat flour, wheat germ, peanuts, dry cereals, carrot, maize, apple, pumpkin, banana etc., survive cooking [7,39,42] . Grant and coworkers [43] demonstrated that the kidney beens that have been heated for several hours in slow cookers are likely to retain enough lectins to cause gastroenteritis, especially, if not pre soaked before cooking.…”