hey guys, sooo need to know why to beans make you fart???

Answer 1

Me thinks..theyre like bullets and missiles...they contain gunpowder...and once you start...its like a firing machine gun aye!

Answer 2

As you probably know, the large intestine has a large bacteria population. Although the population of bacteria fluctuates depending on diet, and the use of antibiotics, bacteria can make up to 50% of the weight of fecal material. These bacteria feed on indigestible carbohydrates. These bacteria produce a variety of gases during the digestion of these carbohydrates, including methane, hydrogen, and hydrogen sulfide. Although methane makes up the bulk of the gas, hydrogen sulfide causes the bad smell. On average, each person produces 500 - 1000 mL of flatulence every day. However, eating a food with large amounts of indigestible carbohydrates (green beans and baked potato), plus a food high in sulfites (salmon) could potentially produce more (and more noticable) gas than normal.

Gas output could vary for a wide variety of reasons.

Some gas is caused by swallowing air as you eat. If you eat quickly, you will likely swallow more gas. Also, foods containing sorbitol/xylitol (e.g. sugar free gum) also cause flatulence. Were you chewing gum on this trip?

Canned foods have been softened by heating process during canning, and some of the gas producing starches may have been removed. Different processing methods may explain the differences you observe after eating canned foods vs. fresh foods.

If you're bowels are irritated (illness, stress) they may pass food through faster than normal, leaving less time for the bacteria to digest the food, and therefore, produce gas.

Also you may have been more aware of the gas you produced because you were cooped up with a bunch of wisecracking friends.

It is common after meals to experience a "high-amplitude propogating contraction". This is a very strong contraction that begins at the top of the large intestine and ends just above the rectum, sweeping the contents ahead of it as it goes. You will often feel a strong urge to have a bowel movement as a result of this contraction. Even if you don't, the contraction will cause any pockets of gas within the intestine to emerge as flatulence. This would explain the gas you have immediately after a meal.

What can you do about it? Here's some suggestions:

* Avoid foods high in sulfites/indigestible carbohydrates (beans, cabbage, broccoli, fish) when you will be trapped in enclosed spaces. Other gas-causing foods include dietetic foods/sugarfree candy and gum (often contain sorbitol/xylitol), soft drinks, whole grains and bran.
* For the office you might consider the flatulence filter, a seat cushion impregnated with activated charcoal.
* Eat slowly to reduce the amount of swallowed air.
* If you're lactose-intolerent (you lack the enzyme lactase), you may wish to avoid foods containing dairy products, or eat foods like Lactaid or Dairy Ease.
* Beano appears to work for some people. It contains a plant enzyme that can digest stachyose and raffinose, two of the sugars in beans that cause flatulance. Take a tablet or a few drops before mealtimes.



-- Chris Rasch ([e-mail]), July 13, 2001.

Answer 3

Well, when we eat beans, or cabbage, or any other gassy food, it all gets mushed up in our stomach and is passed into the small intestine. Now the types of sugar found in beans are a bit big to be taken into the body through the walls of the small intestine and we have no enzyme to break them down into more manageable chunks. This means it all ends up in our large intestine where all the bacteria tuck in and start to reproduce to take best advantage of all the yummy food. The gas is produced by the bacteria during the breakdown of their dinner- bacteria release carbon dioxide, hydrogen and some methane during this process. These gases don't smell but methane and hydrogen do burn pretty happily, which is why farts can be set alight. However, this is NOT recommended as the gas can ignite backwards up your bum, burning all the trapped gas in your rectum and this will burn you. Imagine having to explain that to the A & E nurse.

Some fart gas comes from air that you have swallowed- you'll swallow more if you gorge yourself to fast rather than carefully munching your food. A lot of the gas will be absorbed into the body but in times of stress we tend to rush food and air through the body a bit fast and this makes the farting situation worse. Chemical reactions between stomach acid and intestinal juices can also produce carbon dioxide that bulk out our farts.

But why are farts stinky? While gas produced by bacteria tends to be in fairly small quantities, it can be especially stinky if you've been eating sulphur containing food, such as cabbages: this is a cause of the silent but deadly warm farts in case you're interested. Hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans are sulphur containing fart components, and even in small amounts are not pleasant. Nitrogen containing compounds such as indole and skatole also add to the characteristic aroma of a fart.

Answer 4

Beans contain sugars that we humans cannot digest. The most offensive sugars, known as "flatulence factors" to scientists who research farts, are raffinose, stachiose, and verbascose. When these sugars reach our intestines, the bacteria go wild, have a big feast, and make lots of gas!
The only solution is to take some Beano.

Answer 5

different things we digest takes shorter or longer to digest. If you digest before or at the stomach, it becomes a burp. After the stomach, it becomes a fart. Sinces beans take so long to digest, they give people more gas.
-Vic

Answer 6

Because they have TONS of fiber in them. Especially bagged ones made from scratch.;)

Answer 7

Read this:
http://www.beanogas.com/pdf/Beano_CCI_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Answer 8

Its because they contain fibre

Answer 9

i do not know but i found if you eat loads of fruits and veggies it happens to.

Answer 10

I truly don't know must be science