It’s hard to imagine a Mexican meal without a side of refried beans. However very often I come across with people that simply avoid eating it, why? because of the beans dirty secret: “flatulence”.
I recently found an interesting article published by Diana Herrington www.RealFoodforLife.com Her post is a recollection of 7 steps that will help you to avoid beans dirty secret and instead to enjoy their fun side: beans are rich in nutrients, proteins and fibre.
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7 Ways To Avoid flatulence from beans
- Learn how to cook beans. see easy recipe Best Tips for cooking beans –
- Eat lots of vegetables, particularly green ones with your beans (75 % of the meal should be vegetables).
- As beans are slow to digest:
- Eat fruit or sugar foods 2 – 3 hours away from a meal with beans.
- Only eat one protein in the same meal, as each protein requires a specific type and strength of digestive juices.
- Potatoes conflict with digestion of the beans–so avoid eating them in the same meal.
- Eat a whole grain with beans to compliment them.
4. In Japan and far East Asia they add a piece of seaweed (Kombu or Wakame) after the beans have been cooked as it makes the beans more digestible, more nutritious and tastes great!
5. Use digestive spices: in India they cook ginger, turmeric and sometimes fennel and asafetida with beans to make them more digestible.
6. Chew and savor your beans! Digestion starts in the mouth. Savor bean soup in the mouth before swallowing to begin the process of digestion.
7. Start with mung beans, adzuki and dhal, as they are easy to digest because they are low in the complex sugars that are easily broken down by the human digestive enzymes.
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