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There was a posting the other day about fava beans and dopamine. I checked some of my seed catalogs and found that Johnny's offers "Loreta" favas (which are said to be not an English variety), and Stokes offers "Toto," "Broad Windsor Long Pod," and "Aquadulce." I called both companies, and neither knew whether theirs had any relation to the Vicia type mentioned on this network. Someone at Johnny's did tell me that there had recently been a lot of calls about favas because of "something medical on the internet;" he told me that he'd referred someone to a fava research center in, he believed, Washington state, but he thought it didn't exist anymore, anyway. Rather than starting my own research, I thought I'd ask if anyone has already checked out the fava varieties I've mentioned. Another question: do all favas have some dopamine, even if it's not as much as in the Vicia type? As a last question, has anyone ever eaten or tried to grow favas? I've never tried them; regardless of the dopamine, I'll plant some in my garden if they taste good and they'll grow in Vermont. Charlie Barasch