Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoWhen I boil my beans, I add bay leaf to the water. I think it helps.
But I made a white bean, cabbage, bacon, chop tomato soup for dinner last night, no gas. My husband didn’t have gas…
I didn’t do the bay leaf thing this time, so idk. I think beans just have hella fiber, and idk if your from the US or not, but I’ve read a few times over the years, many people here don’t get enough fiber day to day in the states.
I think the gas has more to do with folks who don’t often eat high fiber foods. When you then, do, it gives you issues.
You’re probably at least somewhat right, if you have beans often, they digest more easily. I had guessed it was because they have high fiber though. It also could have to do with eating under cooked beans, which is never a good idea.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I eat lots of other high fibre foods: oatmeal, wheat bran, whole grain breads and pastas, salads. No issues.
Oligosaccharides are something different. They’re in between simple sugar and fibre. Medium chain sugars basically. They need to broken apart to be absorbed and used by the body. But we don’t produce the enzyme needed to cleave them.
Bacteria can break them down but they live in the colon (like most other digestive bacteria). This breakdown in the colon essentially results in a bunch of simple sugars being introduced into a bacteria-rich environment. More bacteria grow and feast on the sugars, producing gases such as methane.