Why Do People Stool After Eating Beans?

  cooking style, mostly, always drain the first water used in boiling the beans,  when its about to get soft, drain the water,put in fresh water

also don't make it watery

um i guess it's because it wasnt cooked properly 

Beans contains Phytoaglutinin which causes the translocation of enteric bacteria to into a mesenteric lymph node leading to stooling.
It is the content of beans nad possible overgrowth of bowel bacteria that is to  blame rather than quality of beans lol.
Some does of folic acid may help.

Not only stool, but also to the 'mess' if u eat beans without washing it properly u will fart(mess) alot,  Even if it is washed u will still mess but not as much as  the former,  Beans has some consituents that propagate stooling and messing around,  People shouldnt eat much beans, they should eat slight beans because if u take overfeeding na mess u go dey mess for everywhere u go

Beans is synonymous with mess, dirty mess i mean thats why i will never eat beans and i don't mess beleive me. Unless good mess that can serve as perfume in some quaters.

Still yet to figure out

Beans or black eye pea as they are called in the US is probably the best food anyone could eat.

Here is a USDA link to the nutritional contents of beans:

http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/facts/hhpfacts/FS-PeasBlack-eyedDry.pdf
 
It is definitely FALSE that excessive stooling after beans meal is secondary to some "phytoagglutinins that cause a translocation of bacteria into lymph nodes," or to improper drainage of the water, or because the gods were angry with you as you were consuming the meal.

If you look at the nutritutional contents, you would see that 1 serving, say 1 cup has as much as 11g of fiber. The fiber is what makes you stool, nothing else. Now the more you eat, because it tastes nice or because you're hungry, you may forget that you may be taking a little bit too much fiber than you need.

The next characteristics of legumes or beans is just too much 'fart, gas, or mess' Beans provides you with so many essential minerals than any food group out there that there is a saying that 'if you only have one opportunity to eat one meal in 48 hours, then beans is your food'

Legumes and especially beans contain purines; one of the essential building blocks of DNA, amino acids, and proteins. This high protein compound is what gets broken down by enzymes and bacteria into different types of gases- ammonia, sulfur, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, etc. ---- that you pass the gas as 'fart'.

Passing fart, or gas is also a good sign that the beans you've eaten is being successfully used to replace deficient amino acids and minerals in the body.

Without sounding like a beans salesman, I would like to recommend that you eat beans today, and at least once a week. Beans is one of the natural foods found to reduce your risk of heart attack(it contains 0 fat/cholesterol), reduce constipation, and replenishes lost essential minerlas.

I would like the opinion of registered nutritionists and other physicians in the forum on this topic.

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It's not really much about how it's cooked. It's the beans itself. The sugar in beans (oligosaccharide) is hard to digest or break down in da human body or at least for most people. and most people don't have the enzyme that breaks down that sugar. it's the same thing with lactose-intolerant people. they donnot have lactase, the enzyme that breaks down sugar found in diary products.

I know. said sugar is a fiber. i was just being specific. 

It's not all about FIBER either <fake and 9jaking>. there are soluble and insoluble fibers. those are also factors of effects of certain foods on people.

thanks datnigadaz for talking about the "mess" part of this discussion. I laughed my ass off reading mess in the lines. Reminded me of the days back in Nigeria, 

Well all I have to say is that eating beans is good for you if your body has got a nice relationship with it. Over here, I don't get it really easy especially when I disappear into the Finnish lands so when I do so, I try to use other equivalent foods as replacement until I get back to the limelight.

just my 2kobo 

My brother, we just dey exchange ideas. No big deal.

Your referrence link was about red beans, not our popular blackeye pea or 'beans'. I know there are at least 100 species of beans, both poisnous and edible.

Personally, I have never eaten red beans, but I know people who have. My grand-mother would tell us about some type of beans they were forced to eat as kids because of hunger, "we soaked it for 4 days, cooked it for 24 hours, and had the dog taste it before we did" My discussion is focused on blackeye pea, because some species of beans could kill you.

Another point with your ref. was that it was an experiment in mice- now, you know that man and mice don't share similar diet, colonic anatomy, or even social influence of excessive gas production-farting.

From a surgical point of view, any agent that induces colonic diarheae also activates the lymphocytes lining the colons, not just with beans.

Diarheae or not, the most important point is moderation. There are different types of fiber-soluble and insoluble, but they produce same effect- makes you go.

Have you ever wondered why beans is always on the menu of institutionalized settings- prisons, hospitals, boarding schools? Despite the bad name, it's the only cheaply available food that has been found to ward off malnutrition.

Many people don't know, I too didn't know when I was in boarding house at Nike Boys, we thought that Wednesday and Saturday beans was a punishment sent directly from hell.

Hmm. . . 

Beans are high in fibre which doesn't normally sit in the body but passes right through. It has nothing to do with them being cooked properly or otherwise. Just be lucky that you are able to have a good stool because food, once eaten is not supposed to sit in the body. Once food has served its function of providing nourishment and minerals to the body, the wastage should be expelled. A healthy person should have daily stools.

Please Google.

it depend on how the bean is cooked