See Jacqueline Eberstein's Controlled Carbohydrate Nutrition
Atkins
"Lectins in the United States diet: a survey of lectins in commonly consumed foods and a review of the literature" in Am J Clin Nutr (1980) [full pdf version] [includes food lists]
"Although both cooking and the normal digestive processes might be expected to blunt or abrogate dietary lectin activity, this need not necessarily be the case. ... [D]ry heat may not completely destroy lectin activity .... clearly illustrated in the finding of hemagglutinating activity in the processed wheatgerm, peanuts, and dry cereals that we tested. ... [S]everal of the lectins have been found to be resistant to proteolytic digestion e.g., wheat germ agglutinin, tomato lectin, navy bean lectin and, when looked for, have been recovered intact in stool. ... [S]ome lectins in foodstuffs will survive one or both degradative processes to interact with cells, secretions, and microflora of the digestive tract resulting in, as yet unknown, functional consequences."
"The Dark Side of Wheat" by Sayer Ji on GreenMedInfo.com
"Opening Pandora's Bread Box: The Critical Role of Wheat Lectin in Human Disease" by Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo.com
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