Many, many people will tell you that the key to reducing bean gas is to eat more beans. Eating more beans, they argue, works because it allows our digestive systems, and the microbiome in them, to acclimate to the beans. Over time, they say, the gassiness will go down. This makes no sense to me. If these oligosaccharides are food for bacteria in our gut, common sense would say that feeding that bacteria more food would, if anything, do the opposite by supporting their population growth while giving them plenty of raw material to digest. It wasn’t within the scope of this project to test (and, I suspect, disprove) this theory, but count me as highly doubtful. If anything, I have to imagine that eating more beans more often just makes people more used to being gassy, and that, in turn, makes them notice it less. (Their significant others might have a very different take…)

All these people are right though and this guy is wrong. I don’t know what the mechanism is but it’s clearly there whatever it is. If someone who doesn’t eat beans much can notice having bad farts after eating beans, someone who does eat lots of beans would be able to notice if their farts suddenly get less bad after taking a break from beans. Or be aware of the other foods that actually do give them gas, and the stark difference between that and the norm. “They’re just pretending not to fart all the time” is not a realistic explanation.

Use Asafoetida. It has been used for 1000s of years. Poorly written article that focused only on western science.

Alpha galactosidase pills or refry the beans.

Soak them