Harvard-Tested Study of 17 Remedies for Reducing Bean-Related Gas Reveals What Actually Works
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jstrieb
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Summary
This article details a year-long investigation into whether common remedies can actually reduce gas caused by eating beans. The author partnered with Harvard's Science of Cooking program to rigorously test 17 different remedies (soaking methods, additives, cooking techniques, etc.) and determine which ones are scientifically proven to work versus which are folk remedies with no evidence. The article goes beyond repeating conventional wisdom by conducting actual experiments with scientific oversight to provide evidence-based answers.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledGet it out of your system now; this article is about farting.
For the past year, I've been tinkering with an idea—an idea to make a fart-free bean.
But those articles don't do much more than repeat the same old advice, much of the time uncritically and with little to no evidentiary basis.
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