beans & fart

[Curiouscol]

why do beans make you fart

[natalie_1982]

Because they're high in fibre.

Chickpeas, brown bread, orange juice and other high fibre foods always, as you so delicately put it, make you fart.  If you want to know why fibre makes you windy then I'm sure someone else will have a more detailed answer.

[Rabelais]

The human digestive system is not capable of, or is poor at, digesting certain carbohydrates. These then traverse the GI tract unchanged. When bacteria in the large intestine break down certain types of carbohydrates--oligosaccharides--they produce sulphurous gases which make wind smell, and beans are rich in such carbohydrates.

[B00]

Me thinks col has a bit of a fart obsession- he's posted a thread on B&S about farts- something you feel like sharing col? apart from your farts obviously!

[Curiouscol]

nothing wrong with a bit of toilet humour! might as well know the facts while I'm at it!

[BigDogsWang]

Are they really 'good for your heart'?

[Rabelais]

Almost certainly they are not "good for your heart". Straining against a closed glottis causes an abrubt rise in blood pressure, due to the increase in interthoracic pressure squeezing the heart. This sudden spike in pressure can cause blood vessels to rupture resulting in death, as can be seen by the number of people that regularly kark it while having a poo a la the king of rock and roll and Catherine the Great. It is the same increase in pressure that forces the intestinal wind to be ejected at increased velocity.

[depressedmgl]

Much of them are indigestible, and therefore they ferment in your gut, the fermentation process causes gas to be released.

[Gef]

They don't, at least not more than any other food.

[smudge]

I''ve always thought that the fibre in baked beans causes 'windy pops' or 'bottom burps' !

[flaming]

No-one commented on the obvious rhyme with 'heart'. As a vegetarian I do have problems certain dishes.  It's all fruit and veg. with me. I try not too have many pulses.

[redmug100]

Beans make you fart but its the egg or sausage you have with them that cause the snell!

[charliep88]

does any one recall the nutritionist EWELL GIBBON the poor son of a gun ate so much fiber that his arse literally exploded killing him and an off duty liquor salesman whom happened to be passing by at a most inappropriate moment.,causing quite a stir in the cereal industry which is trying to live down there accusation of being a cereal killer  I say?