Title. I love beans but I have to be careful when I eat them because they can be dangerous.
In: Biology
Gas is made by some of your gut bacteria, and if you feed those their favorite food, they’ll multiply and make more gas. You happen to have some that love beans. Personally, I don’t get gassy from beans or peas at all, but from sugar and especially from starch.
Well it’s simple. Beans are good for your heart and the more you eat them the more you fart. Also the more you fart the better you feel and they contain oligosaccharide which cannot be fully broken down in digestion and gas is the chemical byproduct of our lower intestines trying to break them down, so eat your beans at every meal. Unless it’s a date.
According to some old Greek guy who people still talk about, beans have souls, and your farts are the bean souls escaping your body. I’m no scientist, but I’d buy that for a dollar!
It’s obviously magic. Have you never heard the rhyme?
Beans contain short chain carbohydrates called oligosaccharides that some members of your gut biome can digest but you can’t, and they make gas when they do. An inexpensive commercial product called Beano contains the enzyme that breaks them down without producing gas. I rule that I live by is; “No Beano, no chick peas.”
Raffinose.
It’s a complex sugar that the body has trouble digesting. Beans have a lot of it. As it passes through the digestion system, bacteria break it down and produce hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and methane… which turns into farts.
If you don’t put onions in your beans when you cook them they are much less gassy but taste terrible.
They only do if you don’t eat fiber regularly. If you eat a healthy diet rich in fiber and vegetables, and low in processed food and animal products, beans will not have that effect.
Now, the transition between the two diets can be nasty, in either direction, because your body’s biome won’t know what to do with the new diet for a while.
If you give beans a good rinse or even a quick soak and rinse it will help.
Helps me anyway.
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