Re: Result of eating more beans

"Bob Pastorio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Very interesting. Hard to believe. The music maker in beans is a
> family of compounds called "oligosaccharides" which we can't digest no
> matter how hard we try. We have no means to break them down to simpler
> sugars. No enzymes. The only way is to add them to our foods, as in
> using the product called "Beano."
>
> If you've found a way to do that, you're the first human in history to
> do so. Boiling beans with sugar is not a broadly-used way of cooking them.

Not hard to believe at all!  I eat beans every day, sometimes twice a day
and have done so for most of my adult life.  As a child, I ate the
frequently, but not as frequently as I would have liked.  The rest of the
family did not like them as well as I did and they did have some problems
with them.

When I cook my beans from scratch, I soak them overnight, changing the water
a few times before cooking them.  My Mom adds baking soda to her beans.  She
claims this gets rid of the gas.  I did try this once and only got a foamy
mess.  I do not get gas from my beans.  I don't get gas from canned beans
either.  Never have!

But milk?  All it takes is one glass and my stomach is in knots.  Fruit is
troublesome too.  Raw cabbage or raw cauliflower eaten in any quantity does
not work well for me, and the sugar alcohols are the worst.

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