More Protein Than Beef — And Then I Read the Cooking Time

Winged bean: more protein than beef, four edible crops from one root — leaves, pods, seeds and a tuber. USDA nutrient data, a Florida extension bulletin and a 2023 peer-reviewed review, all below. Psophocarpus tetragonolobus. The winged bean. Twenty-nine point six grams of protein per hundred grams of seed according to USDA FoodData Central — against eighteen point six for raw ground beef. Four hundred and forty milligrams of calcium and thirteen point four milligrams of iron in that same hundred grams. In October 1974 a panel of specialists met at Airlie, Virginia. The next year the National Academy of Sciences printed 41 pages on this one plant. Since then it has gone into more than seventy countries. Almost nobody in the United States grows it. This video is thirteen things the documents actually say — including the two places where the documents disagree with each other, and the one number I could not find and therefore did not give you. 📕 THE COMPLETE ARCHIVE — THEY WROTE IT DOWN Different subject, same method. Seven United States government documents on keeping food without refrigeration, 1897 to 1938, restored in full. 91 pages, every quotation verbatim, every source address printed inside. 👉 https://thecellaryear.gumroad.com/l/t... ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 The claim, and the panel that met in 1974 2:53 13 · 12 — four foods from one root, and the leaf nobody eats 5:33 11 · 10 — the flower, and the four-inch rule 8:33 9 · 8 · 7 — the tuber, the protein, and the correction 13:30 6 · 5 · 4 — the oil, the minerals, and the soil 18:12 3 · 2 — why it will not flower, and the 26 hours 22:26 1 — nobody hid it 25:12 What to actually do with this 📄 THE FOUR SOURCES — all free, all open UF/IFAS Extension HS561 — Bean, Winged (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus), James M. Stephens, 1994, revised 2015, reviewed 2018. A cooperative extension publication of the University of Florida and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 👉 https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu USDA FoodData Central — three separate entries: winged bean mature seeds, winged bean leaves, winged bean tuber. 👉 https://fdc.nal.usda.gov Bepary, Roy, Pathak & Deka — Biochemical composition, bioactivity, processing, and food applications of winged bean. Legume Science, Volume 5, Issue 3, 2023. DOI 10.1002/leg3.187 👉 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f... National Academy of Sciences — The Winged Bean: A High-Protein Crop for the Humid Tropics. 1975, second edition 1981, 41 pages. 👉 https://nap.nationalacademies.org/cat... Also cited: Sriwichai et al., Dual-Purpose of the Winged Bean Based on Pod and Tuber Yields, Plants (Basel), 2021. ⚠️ WHAT THIS VIDEO IS AND IS NOT This is a reading of documents, not growing advice and not nutrition advice. Two things in particular are worth knowing before you order seed. Most varieties will only flower on short days and are killed by frost, which closes the window almost completely north of the Gulf states. And raw winged bean seed contains trypsin inhibitors — it has to be soaked and cooked thoroughly before eating. Both are covered in full in the video. 🥕 MORE FROM THE CELLAR YEAR Food preservation without refrigeration, restored from USDA documents — root cellar storage, salt brine, curing pork, drying, preserving eggs. 👉 https://thecellaryear.gumroad.com #wingedbean #protein #gardening #homesteading #usda #foodsecurity #selfsufficiency #legumes #plantprotein #growyourownfood