Growing up the only beans I knew existed were green beans but through the years I have been exposed to many new bean-based dishes.\u00a0 I can truly say that I now enjoy eating a variety of beans and value their high nutritional value.<\/p>\n
Beans are one of the top super foods.\u00a0 They are loaded with vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants, and protein.\u00a0 Beans are very low in fat and contain no cholesterol. (Cholesterol is only found in food that comes from animals.)\u00a0 The antioxidants that are found in beans disable the activity of free radicals in your body, thus slowing the aging and disease processes.<\/p>\n
Many people are hesitant to eat beans because of their well-known side effect but this side effect can be managed.\u00a0 Beans contain the sugar oligosaccharide that the body is unable to digest.\u00a0 Therefore, producing gas and bloating.\u00a0 If you are new to eating beans or eat them infrequently introduce them to your diet gradually.\u00a0 Over time your body will adapt with less of the side effects.\u00a0 Another option is to take Bea-no prior to consuming beans.\u00a0 Bea-no is an over the counter tablet or liquid that contains the enzyme that breaks down oligosaccharide, thus preventing gas and bloating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Growing up the only beans I knew existed were green beans but through the years I have been exposed to many new bean-based dishes.\u00a0 I can truly say that I now enjoy eating a variety of beans and value their high nutritional value. Beans are one of the top super foods.\u00a0 They are loaded with vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants, and Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition-2","cat-780-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/beans.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9096,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/9096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}