How can I cook beans so they don't produce gas?
Beans contain a type of carbohydrate that our bodies can't digest properly, which can produce gas. In this video, nutritionist Janet Brill, PhD/RD, explains this concept, and provides helpful tips for how to cook beans so they don't produce gas.
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[GENTLE MUSIC] When you're cooking up your beans, you could throw in a strip of what's called kombu, which is a Japanese dried seaweed.
And you throw that in the cooking water with the beans. And that will help de-gas them.
Beans actually contain a type of carbohydrate called oligosaccharide. In particular, it's called raffinose.
And our bodies do not contain the enzyme required to digest this kind of carbohydrate.
So what happens is the beans do not get fully digested. And then the bacteria kind of feast on those beans
and produce methane and other byproducts. And that's where the gas comes from.
How to get rid of that side effect of eating super hard healthy beans would be to-- a couple of simple tricks I have.
One is to-- when you're cooking up your beans, you could throw in a strip of what's called kombu, which is a Japanese dried seaweed.
And you throw that in the cooking water with the beans. And that will help de-gas them.
Or you could do what's called a speed soak in your pressure cooker. And do that for two minutes with--
make sure you throw in a tablespoon of baking soda. And speed soak them for two minutes in your pressure cooker. And that should get rid of the gas problem.
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