The comment about fruit and beans seems a bit strange. Not all starches - only resistant starches like SF are fermented in the colon. Other starches are easily broken down into their constituent glucose molecules which are easily absorbed in the stomach and small intestine. They are not fermented.
Many fruits such as apples, pears, bananas contain SF (e.g. pectin) and resistant starches as well as simple sugars. Only malabsorbed sugars such as raffinose in beans and fructose for fructose malabsorbers are not easily absorbed and they are fermented in the colon.
This comment seems to be similar to saying don't eat too many beans, too much of certain fruits or too many beans and certain fruits or you will produce more gas in your colon. It is the amount of resistant starches or indigestible sugars one eats not the source they come from that likely cause more gas.
The more fermentable starch or indigestible sugars that one eats from any source will increase the amount of gas produced in the colon.
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Re: Beans
It is the amount of resistant starches or indigestible sugars one eats not the source they come from that likely cause more gas.
