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by vmg126 hours ago |
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upvoteby belorn2 hours ago|
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Taste is very individual. I personally can't stand the taste of dry beans, to the point where I have a strong aversion just to the texture itself. Fresh green beans can be fine (usually has a sweet or acidic taste), and beans used in Asian food like glass noodles or soy source don't taste like beans at all to me.

When people talk about eating more beans, or when people talk about using it as an ingredient, it usually only mean dry beans.

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upvoteby halflife6 hours ago|
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Beans look gross?
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upvoteby vmg125 hours ago|
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Not dry but they don't exactly look appetizing when cooked and covered in bean juice if you don't already like them.
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upvoteby steve_adams_861 hours ago|
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Most of the world disagrees and eats/enjoys tons of beans.
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upvoteby Izikiel436 hours ago|
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I think the problem with beans is not looking gross, it's that they cause you to contribute a lot of methane to climate warming (you fart a lot).
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upvoteby gumby5 hours ago|
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Now I have to go to the lab and check (we have a ringdown sensor tuned to CH4/CO2/H2O precise into single digit ppb).

Some humans have methanogens in their gut and these people exhale methane (gut->bloodstream->lungs) and they can emit quite a lot, at least enough to completely fuck up our lab work. Our lead scientist is such a person, and the effect is so bad that he exhales into a bin liner when setting up an experiment.

Or he did: this was so inconvenient that we automated all our instruments, valves, etc so we could run experiments from the kitchen or even at home (lots of RPis which I wouldn’t normally use for anything important). Fortunately this also automated all the data collection.

But now I have to run a trial to see if my diet modulates anal CH4 emissions. Thanks HN!

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upvoteby Izikiel432 hours ago|
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Let me know how it goes, I have a home sensor I'm married to for that (and she is very loud with alerts)
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upvoteby gumby2 hours ago|
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The sensor she likely uses is only good in the hundreds of ppm. Fortunately the LFL for methane is roughly 50,000 ppm so there’s no need to give up smoking when a bout of methane-heavy flatulence occurs.
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upvoteby adonovan5 hours ago|
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The methane quantity from human legume consumption is negligible, and beans are just about the most greenhouse-efficient source of protein there is.

Cow “farts” (actually rumen belches) are something else entirely.

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upvoteby Izikiel432 hours ago|
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Wooosh
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upvoteby vmg125 hours ago|
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That's only if your not acclimated to a high fiber diet.
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