{"id":1849,"date":"2017-03-03T08:10:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T08:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myvitaminpacks.com\/mvp\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2022-12-05T07:58:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T07:58:39","slug":"health-benefits-of-beans-and-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/health-benefits-of-beans-and-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Beans, Beans, The (Formerly) Musical Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"All jokes about gaseous emissions aside, beans and legumes are a great source of fiber, protein, vitamins, and minerals.\u00a0 They\u2019re also super versatile and can be found in foods of nearly every culinary tradition around the world.\u00a0 Beans make appearances in dishes like minestrone soup, black bean sauce, chili, hummus, falafels, burritos, dal, mung bean noodles, tofu, tempeh, or are eaten on their own as edamame, black-eyed peas, or red beans and rice.Many people shy away from beans because of their famous after-effect: flatulence.\u00a0 But there are numerous things you can do to eliminate (or at least minimize) this effect:Rinse, soak, and rinse again. \u00a0To cook dried beans, rinse your beans, soak them overnight (at least 8 hours) in twice the amount of water as the amount of beans.\u00a0 Then dump the soaking water, rinse the beans, and cook them in freshwater.\u00a0\u00a0 If you\u2019re using canned beans, drain off all of the liquid in the can and rinse the beans thoroughly before using them.Cook with kombu.\u00a0 When cooking dried beans, add a 2-inch piece of dried kombu to the pot.\u00a0 Kombu is a sea vegetable that contains glutamic acid.\u00a0 This helps tenderize the beans during cooking and also adds beneficial vitamins and minerals.\u00a0 Remove the kombu after cooking.\u00a0 Kombu can be found in the Asian food section of most grocery stores.Skim off the top.\u00a0 As your beans come to a boil, foamy bubbles will form on top of the water.\u00a0 Carefully skim this foam off the top and discard it.\u00a0 Removing these sugars makes the beans easier to digest.Cook beans thoroughly.\u00a0 A bean is done cooking when you can easily mash it on the roof of your mouth with your tongue.\u00a0 If they\u2019re still firm, let them cook a bit longer.\u00a0 Small beans like lentils, may only take about 30 minutes on the stove top to cook through; big beans like kidney beans may take more like an hour.\u00a0 If you\u2019d prefer to let your big beans cook overnight or while you\u2019re at work, 8 hours on high in a slow cooker will also do the trick nicely.Add spices.\u00a0 Cumin, ginger, fennel, epazote, or winter savory added to the cooking liquid will help make beans more digestible.\u00a0 Adding these herbs and spices to the finished dish, like ginger and cumin added to Indian dal soup, helps further aid in easily digesting the beans.Add salt and\/or acid.\u00a0 A little sea salt, miso, or soy sauce added at the end of cooking time not only contributes to flavor, but also helps make beans more digestible.\u00a0 Acidic foods like vinegar help out in a similar way; add a little vinegar to the cooking liquid at the end of cooking time, or marinate the beans in a vinaigrette dressing after rinsing off the cooking liquid.\u00a0 Or use acid in the final dish, like lemon juice in hummus.Eat more beans!\u00a0 As your body gets used to more beans and legumes in your diet, they\u2019ll become easier to digest.\u00a0 Start with small amounts a couple of times a week and gradually increase the amount of beans in your diet.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All jokes about gaseous emissions aside, beans and legumes are a great source of fiber, protein, vitamins, and minerals.\u00a0 They\u2019re also super versatile and can be found in foods of nearly every culinary tradition around the world.\u00a0","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":13423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1819,698,682],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digestion","category-digestive-balance-support","category-stomach-digestive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13427,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/13427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}