Where would humans be with out Legumes. Probably no where.Thanks to their unique ability to use nitrogen from the air to synthesize proteins they quickly became a very important supply for humans and mammals of protein were meat was scares.
How do these plants do it ...
They do it by establishing a symbiosis ( if you watched spider man 3 .. you saw a symbiotic creature... :) ) between a soil bacteria and their roots. The bacterias are called nitrogen fixing
rhizobia and the legume builds a nodule it its roots were the bacteria can live....In the nodule the bacteria gets exposed to air. And as you might know our atmosphere contains 75% Nitrogen.
Without getting into biochemical terms what the bacteria does is grab the nitrogen give it to the root of the LEGUME and the legume gives it some carbohydrates or sugars to grow ..... and they both are happy ...
If you wan to learn more let me know :)
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Back in my country we used to eat a lot of veggies, but not much meat. We received most of our protein from beans, lentils and etc... Here in U.S., meat is everywhere and vegetarian dishes were hard to find. Things are changing though. We are starting to see more and more vegetarian dishes being available in restaurants. In addition, number of vegetarian restaurants is increasing.
Vatrin,
I hear what you are saying, however I have an interesting dilemma. My son is severely allergic to legumes. (peanuts and lentils). SO, I do not share your view of how wonderful the legumes are for the human kind. (I know I know, the greater good.....) Now I would like to ask you a question, can you put together a complete list of all legumes? In the picture there are a number of legumes(?) some of which my son eats, I think. Any way a complete list would be great. ( I know I can do the research on the internet, but that would not be fun for you...)
Take care.
Hi Cuneyt,
You are absolutely right.I will have a list posted for you and some more information.
Sometimes we take many things for granted.
Thanks for your comments.
Hi,
I have the same situationa as cuneyt... my son is allergic to legumes as well. I was wondering if I could get that complete list too.... I have been looking everywhere online and can't find anything, mostly just list's for vegetarian diets.
Thanks
Hey I was wondering, if this blog at all gets looked at still, can I also get a copy of the complete list of all legumes, as I am in the same predicament? Thanks a lot!!! If you could email me the copy to r.nithya@hotmail.com I would very much appreciate it!!
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