Why do you have to soak beans overnight before cooking?!
Another reason to soak beans is that it maximizes their nutritional benefit which is important. When beans aren't soak ed it means longer cooking times before they become soft enough to eat. The longer the cooking times the more proteins, vitamins and minerals are destroyed in the heat - all the good things they we wanted when we selected the beans in the first place.
The longer soaking time is recommended to allow a greater amount of sugar to dissolve, thus helping the beans to be more easily digested. Always discard the soaking water.
Answers: Soaking beans allows them to slowly absorb the moisture they need to cook evenly. Soaking keeps the beans from splitting open or from the having the outside shell fall apart while the middle is still hard. For many people, eating beans causes intestinal discomfort, or gas because it is difficult to digest complex sugars in beans The main reasons for soaking dried beans is to soften and return moisture to them, and to break down the oligosaccharides (the indigestible sugars that cause gas).
Another reason to soak beans is that it maximizes their nutritional benefit which is important. When beans aren't soak ed it means longer cooking times before they become soft enough to eat. The longer the cooking times the more proteins, vitamins and minerals are destroyed in the heat - all the good things they we wanted when we selected the beans in the first place.
The longer soaking time is recommended to allow a greater amount of sugar to dissolve, thus helping the beans to be more easily digested. Always discard the soaking water.
its not imperative to soak overnight...it cuts down on the cooking time. actually i dint soak my beans because they loose alto of minerals and vitamins in the soaking water. just cook them a little longer that's all.
If you don't soak them they may not turn out mushy. It will take a lot longer to cook them.
I like to soak the beans to cut down on the cooking time. But you could just cook them longer if you don't want to soak them.