Scientists find secret to gas-free beans (Reuters/CNN)

Tuesday, April 25, 2006; Posted: 3:05 p.m. EDT (19:05 GMT)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Two strains of bacteria are the key to making beans flatulence-free, Venezuelan researchers reported on Tuesday.

They identified two bacteria, Lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus plantarum, which can be added to beans so they cause minimal distress to those who eat them, and to those around the bean-lovers, Marisela Granito of Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, Venezuela and colleagues reported.
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Writing in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Granito and colleagues found that adding these two gut bacteria to beans before cooking them made them even less likely to cause flatulence.
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Smart cooks know they can ferment beans, and make them less gas-inducing, by cooking them in the liquor from a previous batch. But Granito's team wanted to find out just which bacteria were responsible for this.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/04/25/health.beans.reut/index.html

OK, snicker if you want, but this is good research, and it's important to a lot of people who use beans as an important source of protein. Nice to see Latin America is not depending on El Norte to do the science, as we are rapidly losing our ascendancy.

:applause: :woohoo: :rofl:

And Beano works so well.

under control...if you belive that...I have a beano tablet for you!

The item is both humorous and serious- the audio/visual image is really funny, and the idea that people can eat beans without the, ahem, side effects, is good. I like beans, but sometimes they don't like me...

pasttime in a small city when you're bored.

a la Spunk and Moxie ...