Question on red beans

[blissful]

I haven't bought canned beans in years. I always drain the beans. I don't keep the water they were cooked in to make chili or if I save them in quart deli containers to freeze.

Who tested, did anyone test what makes beans fartier? Serious Eats and Harvard TESTED BEANS and the effects. It's a long article.

Can You Stop Beans From Making You Gassy? We Tested 17 Remedies With Harvard Scientists—Here's What Works

We partnered with Harvard’s Science of Cooking program to test common ways to reduce bean-related gas—and find out which actually work.

www.seriouseats.com

I still believe that since we eat them most days we don't notice any increase in gas, at all. Our gut biome's bacteria are legume eating bacteria, so less are left to ferment and create gas. In the beginning when we started eating more of them, we did have big, loud issues. ha ha ha.
Now we just have issues with raw cauliflower and raw cabbage and large amounts of sauerkraut.

The Results​

Do Any Traditional (i.e., Non–Beano) Cooking Techniques Reduce Bean-Induced Fartiness?​

Categorically no. You can soak your beans for anywhere between 8 and 24 hours, you can throw away that soaking water or keep it, you can cook direct from dry, you can pressure cook, you can cook with bay leaves or kombu, you can even parboil soaked beans for a minute in boiling water and throw that water away. None of these strategies makes an appreciable difference in the fart levels of beans cooked from scratch. Strangely, the beans cooked with bay leaves had the highest fart potential of any of the samples tested—almost as though the bay conserved the farts rather than dispelling them. But we would need more tests to be sure.


These tests blew me away. At the very least, I expected that presoaking the beans and pitching the water would reduce fartiness. After all, the sugars are water soluble, so they should leach into the soaking water and get discarded. As it turns out, not so much. I still don’t understand this result.

 

[jennyema]

Excellent, I haven't tried pressure cooking any beans so far, but I know the dried beans are quite a bit cheaper than the tinned ones, so good to know I won't be poisoning myself if I try!

The pressure cooker is wonderful for beans!!

 

[grumpyoldman]

i have been eating those things for over 60 years and NOW someone tells me they can be poison ? get outta here !!!

 

[caseydog]

i have been eating those things for over 60 years and NOW someone tells me they can be poison ? get outta here !!!

My first dog loved grapes. She lived 17 years. Then I found out grapes are poisonous for dogs.

CD

 

[grumpyoldman]

well i guess if it doesn't kill us in the first 20 years, what the hell just eat it huh

 

[blissful]

 

[caseydog]

I buy the no-salt added canned beans. Kroger and HEB have them in their store brands, so they are inexpensive, and good quality. I do that with most canned products, like tomato products. I add the amount of salt and other seasonings to my tastes.

CD

 

[RavingLunatic]

I drain out the water and then I don't add salt, same with when I cook anything with salted butter, I just skip the salt part.