New Bean Discovery!!!! For BDRob...

[ToonaRockGuy]

Study shows secret to gas-free beans

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two strains of bacteria are the key to making beans flatulence-free, Venezuelan researchers reported on Tuesday.

They identified two bacteria, Lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus plantarum, which can be added to beans so they cause minimal distress to those who eat them, and to those around the bean-lovers, Marisela Granito of Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, Venezuela and colleagues reported.

Flatulence is gas released by bacteria that live in the large intestine when they break down food. Fermenting makes food more digestible earlier on.

Writing in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Granito and colleagues found that adding these two gut bacteria to beans before cooking them made them even less likely to cause flatulence.

They tested black beans, known scientifically as Phaseolus vulgaris.

"Legumes, and particularly Phaseolus vulgaris, are an important source of nutrients, especially in developing countries," Granito's team wrote in the report.

"In spite of being part of the staple diets of these populations, their consumption is limited by the flatulence they produce."

Smart cooks know they can ferment beans, and make them less gas-inducing, by cooking them in the liquor from a previous batch. But Granito's team wanted to find out just which bacteria were responsible for this.

When the researchers fermented black beans with the two bacteria, they found it decreased the soluble fiber content by more than 60 percent and lowered levels of raffinose, a compound known to cause gas, by 88 percent.

They fed the beans to rats and then analyzed the rats' droppings to ensure that the beans were digested and kept their nutritional value.

When pre-soaked in the L. casei, the beans stayed nutritious and produced few gas-causing compounds, they reported.

"Therefore, the lactic acid bacteria involved in the bean fermentation, which include L. casei as a probiotic, could be used as functional starter cultures in the food industry," the researchers wrote.

"Likewise, the cooking applied after induced fermentation produced an additional diminution of the compounds related to flatulence."

[JeffLeeper]

The world has just become a better place.

[GREEN GOBLIN]

this could be a new ad campaign for TACO BELL

[SpellboundByMetal]

man, screw THAT...gas is the best part about beans, come ON!

[YankeeRose]

I don't care much for Legumes, but with this changing weather, I could sure use some BEANS. "Oh well!" Spellbound, how's Williamsburg? Ya know, I "bet" it's Sunny in Reno!

[GUITARII]

That's the whole reason beans were invented!!! Geesh... they're taking away the right to jam in a bar, taking away the right to smoke whatever & wherever I want, taking away the right to get hammered, now this??? What's next??

[SpellboundByMetal]

Wburg is pretty cool for what it is. i dont hang anywhere, except scott's. I try to bother him as much as possible, haha.

[ZappasXWife]

I am a pizza connessieur, and the pizza shop in W-Burg is in my top 5. About beans, I am doing a controlled feeding study right now partially funded by the legume foundation and my guys in this study eat minimal 1 1/2 cups beans/day and some eat about 3 cups/day depending on their calorie level, for 4 weeks. They are quite gassy I think. Their families are complaining. We are cooking TONS of beans here everyday, I am sick of smelling them. The beans I mean.

[BDR]

Gas or no gas ...

I ... LIKE .... BEANS ...

r:>)

[drums=life]

that sure takes all the fun out of eatin BEANS.

What would laugh at without em.

[moxham123]

That means they would have to take out the funniest scene in Blazing Saddles if the remake the movie.

[Banned]

That means they would have to take out the funniest scene in Blazing Saddles if the remake the movie.

That scene is crucial to that great movie. On the dvd I bought, it has out-takes, and that scene just like they shot it, without sound. Looks even funnier. I did not know Richard Pryor was a writer, and was supposed to play the Sheriff Bart.