Many people eat green beans raw as a snack or on a salad, but there are some risks of side effects. Green beans — also known as string beans, snap beans, French beans, emotes, or haricots verts ...

PHA is reduced by boiling beans for 10 minutes — a lot less time than it takes to cook dried, soaked kidney beans. By the time you soak and cook the beans, the PHA problem is gone.

Dried beans do have lectin, a type of protein, called phytohemagglutinin, or PHA. And while PHA is toxic in large amounts, only red kidney beans are high enough in PHA to be an issue.

Social media has been warning users to stay away from these “anti-nutrients," but what foods are actually high in lectins? And are they really bad for you?