Please explain a product called "beano"?

Question

Other than it is an enzyme that digests food, can anyone give more detailed information? What kind of enzyme? What is it working with in our digestive tract, etc. Thanks. ps is there anything besides a pill that will work just as good as beano, such as any kind of food?

Answer 1

Beano is an enzyme-based dietary supplement that is alleged by its manufacturer to reduce gas in the digestive tract, thereby preventing flatulence. It contains the enzyme alpha galactosidase that breaks down oligosaccharides such as raffinose, which is claimed that the human digestive tract does not contain. It relieves stomach gas.
Beano is a product containing the enzyme alpha galactosidase, which is derived from the fungus Aspergillus niger. The enzyme works in the digestive tract to break down the complex or branching sugars (polysaccharides and oligosaccharides) in foods such as legumes (beans and peanuts) and cruciferous vegetables (cauliflower, broccoli and brussels sprouts). The enzyme breaks those complex sugars into simple sugars, making these foods somewhat more digestible, and the negative feelings that arise as a consequences of eating those foods are said to be less pronounced as a result.
The polysaccharides and oligosaccharides found in these foods might otherwise pass through the small intestine unaffected. Once in the large intestine, those sugars may be worked on by intestinal flora, fermenting to produce the gases that cause discomfort.
Gas X pills work the same for some people. Drinking a lot of water or non carbonated drink such as ice tea may help also.

Answer 2

Beano is made of an enzyme that comes from a mold called aspergillis. Our colons are naturally filled with bacteria, and when we eat foods that are high in certain oligosaccharides, our colon bacteria digest them and cause flatulence. The enzyme in Beano breaks up these oligosaccharides and therefore prevents flatulence.

There is an excellent article on this in Wikipedia, actually:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beano_%28dietary_supplement%29

There is no food which contains the same enzyme, since Beano is made from a mold (and we don't usually eat mold!) But I have heard of at least one other pill that claims to do the same thing as Beano.

Answer 3

Why didn't you just run a search? The enzyme in Beano is alpha galactosidase and is suposed to prevent intestinal gas by breaking down polysaccharides and oligosaccharides into simple sugars. Run a search for antiflatulants.

Answer 4

Aspergillis ***** something....the company I worked for introduced it to the public on the West coast states...

Check out the Beano website http://www.beanogas.com/

Answer 5

It is the enzyme alpha galactosidase. Far more information can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beano_%28dietary_supplement%29

Answer 6

Stops gas.
There aren't foods you can eat to stop gas but there are foods you can avoid to prevent gas.
Broccoli, Cabbage, Beans, Chilli yadda yadda.

Answer 7

It helps relieve gas in your body after you eat.