#129 - The Science Behind Properly Prepared Beans (and how to do it at home!)

About this episode

This episode explores the health benefits of properly prepared beans and discusses methods to mitigate their potential side effects.

Beans, Beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat, the more you absorb valuable minerals and proteins, improve your cardiovascular function and the health of your arterial walls as well as cholesterol and fat absorption, boost your digestion and gut bacteria health, and enjoy an array of bright and colorful foods - but what about that other, turbulent side benefit? In this explosive episode, we will break down, like an enzyme breaks down an oligosaccharide, the compounds in beans and the processes in your body that can cause the possible noxious side benefits, as well as what ancestral peoples did to deal with this - aside from cracking ancient jokes that never get old. We will discuss in detail a patented process purported to eliminate ALL of the potentially thunderous side-effects using only water, time and heat, and we will additionally talk about herbs that can be cooked or served alongside beans to quell the claps of cheeky applause. There is a copious amount of additional material that I could only include in the show notes for reasons of being too inappropriate to read on air, and they can be found on our website, ancestralkitchenpodcast.com by clicking the Episodes…

People in this episode

Hosts: Alison Kay, Andrea Huehnerhoff

Topics covered

• beans
• nutrition
• digestive health
• cooking methods
• ancestral practices

Keywords

• beans
• nutrition
• digestive health
• cooking
• ancestral diet
• herbs
• minerals

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ancestralkitchenpodcast.com

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