Canavalia beans

The bean or canavalia bean is used mainly as a fungicide against ants, cultivated so that these and other pests die of starvation when eating its leaves and do not damage crops, it is also used to rotate crops and is highly toxic for human consumption . It is necessary to carry out an extraction of antinutrients and toxins, a project that is being developed in Mozambique and other countries that have little variety of legumes; The process consists in the hydration, cooking, and germination of the beans, which makes them suitable for human consumption, a process that must be carried out rigorously for this purpose.