Broad Beans from Larissa 500 grams

Broad beans the Ancient Greek! Beans! From Ancient Greece until today, broad beans are perhaps the most characteristic Greek legume that regains its lost glamor, more and more.

In terms of nutrients, they are a particularly rich source of vegetable protein, and an alternative to meat. They also act as top antioxidants with their most beneficial point being concentrated mainly in the dark part of their shell.

Indicatively it is stated that a cup of cooked beans provides the 44% of the recommended daily intake of folic acid. Folic acid is essential for digestion and metabolism. In addition, it has a high iron content. It covers about 15% of the recommended daily intake for men and 21% for women.

Finally, it is very important to point out that beans are a source of dopamine of the amino acid L-Dopa. Thus, their consumption can help control the intensity of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Extra tip: Try making falafel from beans. Extremely full-bodied taste, which knows no season!

HISTORY "FROM GOLD" BEHIND THE PRODUCT

How to first approach beans and the special role they played in the life of the Ancient Greeks? The most charming story about them has the beans acting as hallucinogens there on the banks of the Acheron, the Gate of the Underworld. Visitors who desired more than anything to come into contact with their loved ones who had crossed the river and gained eternal life in the world of Hades had no choice but to prepare themselves mentally and physically for this mystagogic rite. So they reached the limits of the then living world by consuming large quantities of raw beans. The brown fruits functioned as hallucinogens and as a key factor in methexis. They ate beans, drank wine, necrophilized their loved ones once more and returned to their normal lives. Back in everyday life, they described with awe their experience that is recorded more chillingly than anywhere else in the Nekyia of the Homeric Odyssey.