Why the heck do beans make you fart?!
Why the heck do beans make you fart?
What ingredient is it?
Answers:
Beans (legumes) cause gas because they contain a sugar, oligosaccharide, that the human body can not break down. Oligosaccharides are large molecules and are not broken down and absorbed by the lining of the small intestine as other sugars are.
This is because the human body does not produce the enzyme that breaks down oligosaccharides.
Oligosaccharides make it all the way through the GI tract to the large intestine still intact. The bacteria that live in the small intestine break down the oligosaccharides. This produces the gas that must eventually come out of the rectum.
By the same principal, other foods that come into the large intestine without being properly absorbed in the small intestine will cause gas. Stress, for example, can cause food to move through the GI tract too quickly to be properly digested, with the end result being gas in the large intestine.
For more info read here:
http://ibdcrohns.about.com/od/otherdiges...
Hope I helped!
you need to use garlic...
Beans contain sugars that we can't digest. When these sugars make it to our intestines, the bacteria go berserk, start feasting and make loads of gas
beans are high in fibre and also gassy.argh!