http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/12/what-are-those-green-specks-in-my-biscuits/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Fri, 24 May 2013 17:26:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/12/what-are-those-green-specks-in-my-biscuits/comment-page-1/#comment-15655 Yonina Andrea Foster Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:47:54 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=4038#comment-15655 Thanks for this article. I had the most hysterical thing happen tonight when I made chickpea and sunflower seed blondies. Indeed, they turned GREEN!! and greener as they cooled. I laughed, then got a bit worried. I often soak my seeds, so this very much surprised me. I mixed soaked and unsoaked seeds in this recipe. It had called for peanuts and I don't use peanuts, so made sunflower butter instead. I'm really curious now to know if the reaction makes these more ACID to eat than alkaline. Fascinating!! Felt like a kid in Mrs. Frizzle's Magic Schoolbus class. I'm going to check out your instructions to see if I can avoid the green, though I did mention St. Patrick's Day to my husband. So it's years after 2009. Glad this is still here in 2012. Thanks. Yonina Thanks for this article. I had the most hysterical thing happen tonight when I made chickpea and sunflower seed blondies. Indeed, they turned GREEN!! and greener as they cooled. I laughed, then got a bit worried. I often soak my seeds, so this very much surprised me. I mixed soaked and unsoaked seeds in this recipe. It had called for peanuts and I don’t use peanuts, so made sunflower butter instead. I’m really curious now to know if the reaction makes these more ACID to eat than alkaline. Fascinating!! Felt like a kid in Mrs. Frizzle’s Magic Schoolbus class. I’m going to check out your instructions to see if I can avoid the green, though I did mention St. Patrick’s Day to my husband. So it’s years after 2009. Glad this is still here in 2012. Thanks. Yonina

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