Gassy only when introducing beans as a meaningful component to you diet. After a few weeks the gassiness disappears.

> After a few weeks the gassiness disappears.

As someone who has gone on long stints using beans as a primary protein source, this is simply not true IME. But it does depend on the types of beans and the cooking methods.

AIUI a major component of what determines gassiness is if there's a combination of fiber (especially soluble fiber) and starches/sugars which become locked up in that fiber so they pass through the small colon intact. This is a desirable situation from a health/weight-gain standpoint, since you've avoided absorbing those simple carbs. But it feeds the biome of the large intestine, producing gas.

Legumes tend to have those ingredients... there's no reason to expect it to stop occurring. Ex: 100g pinto beans contains 26.22g carbs of which 9g is dietary fiber, the remaining carbs is stuff your gut can likely use to make gas.

This is simply not true. I grew up in a family of multiple generations of lifelong bean eaters and the gas never goes away no matter how you cook them.

High-protein diets induce gas. You can get the same effect eating meat.

You absolutely do not get gas after a steak dinner like you do after a bowl of pinto beans for dinner. Nobody I've ever met does. You're being hilariously unrealistic.

The meat sweats are more of an issue I think. (And generally, that it makes you smell like cooked steak.)

I think meat sweats are only thing when you have a massive steak and a massive insulin spike from a mound of potatoes or dinner roles.

If you regularly eat them it goes away and isn't a problem.

> hmm, how shall I put this?

They’re the magical fruit.

The more you eat, the more you toot, the more you toot the better you feel, so let's eat beans for every meal