For the impatient: they found no common cooking technique that helped significantly reduce - as they call it the “fartyness” of the beans..
vpShane•11m ago
It's the best part of beans though. Everybody loves their own brand.
mstank•19m ago
I always found it I eat them consistently, they would make me less gassy. But only after a couple of weeks.
addaon•16m ago
Yep. Rancho Gordo bean club member here — when I transitioned from “beans are okay but a lot of work to make a way I enjoy” to “I should make an effort to try a new recipe every two or four weeks”… it took about a month for my stomach to normalize the assault, but now it’s no different than anything with fiber.
plufz•10m ago
Yeah, I eat beans all the time and don’t have any reaction to them. Anecdata but in my experience only people who eat very little beans react to them. But I haven’t researched it.
jghn•8m ago
Fellow Rancho Gordo bean clubber and I saw the same thing. If I really go hard, like eating them with every meal for most of a week I'll notice it building up but otherwise not really.
tmoertel•18m ago
I was surprised they didn't try sprouting the beans before cooking. When a bean germinates, it converts sugars in storage forms to more usable forms. Given that the author seems to understand that gassiness is caused by being unable to digest FODMAPs, sprouting to reduce gassiness seems like an obvious hypothesis to test.
azinman2•12m ago
How does one do that? Does it change the flavor / texture?
VladVladikoff•7m ago
There are lots of sprouting tutorials on YouTube. I used mason jars, soak the seeds for an hour or two, drain and leave the seeds in the jar damp. Rinse the seeds twice a day. Eventually they start to sprout.
spike021•5m ago
Many years ago at a science-y summer camp as a child, this was a "project" we did. Not for the same purpose as suggested here but just to see how sprouting happens. Cool little experiment.
nchmy•8m ago
This is the way. Cultures around the world have been sprouting and fermenting forever, but most people have forgotten it.
There is an old New York Times article (90s) that makes the same conclusion. The only real way to reduce the issue is to eat then more often. Personally never had big issues with beans. What's far worse for me is anything with a high inulin content. I feel physical pain from bloating when eating that.
blackjack_•4m ago
Yes. You just eat beans a lot. After a few months it stops making you gassy until you eat a type of bean you have never eaten before and then you are back to square one.
rand846633•21m ago
For the impatient: they found no common cooking technique that helped significantly reduce - as they call it the “fartyness” of the beans..
vpShane•11m ago