Castor Beans
ike red kidney beans, castor beans contain high concentrations of a particularly harmful lectin. The lectin in castor beans is called ricin.
Yep, the ricin in castor beans is the same poison that Jesse helped Walter White cook up in “Breaking Bad.” It’s actually very easy to distill ricin from castor beans, and a terrorist tried to poison President Obama and U.S. Senator Roger Wicker with envelopes of the stuff in 2013.
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