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		legulere on Sept 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Impossible Burger If you look into the superfamily of globulins, globular proteins you can even find the highly toxic ricin. Also wikipedia states about non-human globulins that "these proteins can cause allergic reactions if they bind with human IgE antibodies." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globulin#Nonhuman_globulins

davidmanescu on Sept 20, 2017 [–]

I would expect these are broken down by enzymes in the mouth/gut long before they have a shot at entering the bloodstream to bind with any antibodies.

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