• Question: why do beans and sprouts make you pass gas?

    Asked by to Zena, Vicky, Sergey, Ian, Claire on 17 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Sergey Lamzin

      Sergey Lamzin answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Beans and sprouts are rich in Nitrogen. Nitrogen is a very valuable nutrient for plant growth, thats why these young to-be plants have a lot of it.

      Unfortunately it’s of not much use to neither us humans, not the bacteria that live in our gut.

      Thus when you digest Nitrogen rich food, it is being released by your gut inform of gaseous Nitrogen. Since we have no way to absorb gases within our gut it has to exit our bodies in some other form – farting or burping 🙂

    • Photo: Ian Simpson

      Ian Simpson answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      Do you mean ordinary sprouts or sprouts “Mexicane” ?

    • Photo: Vicky Schneider

      Vicky Schneider answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      As Sergey said, nitrogen rich…I’ll avoid them if having to be in public places 🙂

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