2007-01-30 14:11:43 · 5 answers · asked by Aimee 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Gas is caused by the body's inability to digest the complex carbohydrates found in beans. Before any carbohydrate can be absorbed from the intestines into the bloodstream, it must be broken down into a single sugar. If it can't be broken down, it can't be absorbed, and will pass whole into the lower intestinal tract where bacteria ferment it, causing gas. Beans contain a triple sugar, stachyose, a quadruple sugar, raffinose, and a five sugar, verbascose, and, since most humans can't digest these sugars, the bacteria go to work on them and create fumes through a fermentation process.
2007-01-30 14:37:34 · answer #1 · answered by Wijssegger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beans are high in dietary fiber. This fiber is undigestable, it just passes though your system, sweeping out your digestive tract. While it's sitting in your gut, the natural yeast ferments it causeing gas. This happens with other high fiber foods like, well, everything that is advertised with "Beano" commercials.
2007-01-30 14:21:43 · answer #2 · answered by ladyk5dragon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a part of nature and there is something in the beans that make you pass gas
2007-01-30 14:17:49 · answer #3 · answered by dark^wishy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard if you are cooking beans you must soak them overnight to avoid getting gas.
2007-01-30 16:02:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A sugar enzyme in the bean that we can't break down in our digestive track.
2007-01-30 14:38:14 · answer #5 · answered by marie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋