Reply to "Beans: does beano work?"

Gee, I eat beans all the time, with and without animal protein. I put them in my soups and salads that I eat practically every day. Don't have any problems with them. I only get excess gas if I eat a huge bowl of chili, or something similar, but nothing I caanot manage.

Back when I was in school and taking nutrition courses, they never said a thing about combining proteins, other than if you were going vegetarian, you should combine your plant proteins, because most plant proteins are not complete. But, nowadays, they have found that as long as you mix it up in general, you don't need to combine in the same meal.

I know there is some diet thing where they have rules about food combining, but I've never heard of any science to it. It is for weight loss and does not work any better than any other diet. It mostly forces you to pay attention to what you are eating by having strict rules. It can't hurt you though. Just Google food combining diet and you will find a lot.

And does Beano work? It depends on whether the enzyme you don't have enough of is the one in Beano.

Jan