WHY BEANS CAUSE FLATULENCE? Most people who eat beans experience wind. This is because beans contain galacto-oligosaccharides or GOS, a prebiotic fiber that travels through GI tract undigested and malabsorbed. Humans lack the enzyme called α-galactosidase to break up the bonds between simple sugars, thus GOS reaches the colon where fermentation by gut bacteria occurs. FermentationContinue reading To bean or not to bean on a low FODMAP diet
