The Smarty Bean Challenge: Get a pressure cooker to get your friends to eat more beans as their main protein source – instead of eating animals. Talk about how beans are friggin’ awesome for our muscles, brains, gut and our planet when they are eating your beans.

Using a pressure cooker will make your beans nice and soft in about 45 minutes, makes the proteins easy to assimilate, and kills the *fart factor*.

Smart pressure cookers that are insulated, programmable and electric make cooking beans even more eco logical and fun. Instant Pot is a good brand.

Thanks for taking the Smarty Bean Challenge.
For all life, Stele / XOEarth

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Smarty Beans / stele cab
we soak our beans once or twice C G C
in a pressure cooker oh so nice Am B-Fl C
set the timer to cook, yum yummy G C
good for me and babe’s tum tummy Am G C

smarty beans make us lean and strong G C
and keep us dancing all day long Am B-Fl C G
smarty beans keep our brain cells smarty C G Am D
and do not make us fart F G C

pinto lentil mung chickpea Am Em G D
lima split pea soy adzuki Am Em G C

we add veggies and spice C G C
oil, vinegar, nutritional yeast, rice Am B-Fl C
me and baby say yummy G C
then we tickle each other’s tummy Am G C

smarty beans are vegan and eco rule, G C
stop climate change, keep the planet cool Am B-Fl C G
smarty beans keep methane tundra hard C G Am D
they do not make the arctic fart F G C

we open our mouths real wide C G C
spoonfuls of protein go inside Am B-Fl C
our jaws go round and round G C
me and baby’s tongues wiggle them down Am G C

pinto lentil mung chickpea Am Em G D
lima kidney soy adzuki Am Em G C

we soak our legumes twice C G C
in the pressure cooker and water nice Am B-Fl C
set the timer minutes and cook, yummy G C
then we play with each other’s tummy Am G C

smarty beans make our muscles strong G C
and help us boogie/ dream all night long Am B-Fl C G
smarty beans keep our neurons smart C G Am D
and do not make us fart F G C

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Smarty Beans song notes / stele c12
we open our mouths real wide C G C
spoonfuls of smarty beans go inside Am B-Fl C
baby and me say … yummy G C Am D
then we dance with each other’s … tummy Am G C

smarty beans vegan organic rule G C
and stop global warming too Am B-Fl C G
smarty beans keep the permafrost smart C G Am D
and stop methane soil farts F G C

pinto lentil mung chickpea Am Em G D
lima soy black-eyed adzuki Am Em G C

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even if you eat 239 smarty beans at a party
one more smarty bean won’t be 240 (too farty)

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opt: dumb meat from factory farms is bad G C
dumb meat from animal prisons is sad Am B-Fl C G
dumb meat spews poisons and greenhouse gas C G Am D
dumb meat is a pain in the planet’s biomass F G C
{dumb meat heats up the planet fast}

opt: we open our mouths so wide
molecules of protein go inside
our arms and legs go up and down
as we dance round and round

we open our mouths real wide
spoonfuls of protein go inside
our jaws go up and down
our tongues wiggle round and round

smarty beans make our muscles strong G C
and help our hugs last long Am B-Fl C G
smarty beans keep our neurons smart C G Am D
and do not (make us) fart F G C

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smarty Bean Notes:
XOEarth Man and I love eating beans at my local restaurants. I am an environmental songwriter and eco street performer in Boulder and beyond.

I am a vegan, so I sometimes take an EPA and DHA supplement, and I love beans. However, many restaurants do not cook their beans long enough.

So I ask restaurants to take the Smarty Bean challenge to make their beans fart-free for the people and the planet. When you eat at your local eateries, I hope you’ll find and enjoy those no-fart beans. However, if by chance, your local eatery’s beans do make you gassssy, say, “hey, no Smarty Beans here?”.

The vegetarian way is good for our bodies and our planet. So here’s my request to vegetarians and others who want to eat fartless beans when they are eating out or partying on the town. If you eat beans at one of your favorite restaurants and they make you fart, hail the restaurant to take the Smarty Bean challenge.

Here’s one way to ask your fave local restaurants to take a Smarty Bean challenge. Ask to speak with the manager and say, “Good day mate, please seriously consider soaking your beans once and cooking them in a pressure cooker or cook them long enough to kill the gas factor. Beans are friggen awesome for our bodies and our sweet planet. But a lot of folks won’t eat beans because they can be hard to digest and make too many fluffs.” Then give them the Smarty Bean challenge website XOEarth.org/smart-beans that you have written on a napkin, and/or, print out the Smarty Bean song and give it to them – challenge and song at XOEarth.org/smart-beans – and/or, sing the Smarty Bean song to them.

Speaking of beany eateries, Food With Integrity is Chipotle’s commitment to changing traditional “fast food” culture by serving customers the very best ingredients, all raised with respect for the animals, the environment, and the farmers. I love Chipotle for that. Because eating more vegetarian is good for Mother Nature, I think that’s why Chipotle is open to cooking non-fart Smarty Beans.

If some of the restaurants in your area are reluctant to make Smarty Beans, tell them to check out Chipotle.com to read about Food With Integrity. Hopefully Chipotle will help inspire them to be more respectful to the animals, our environment, and the farmers, and in turn, get them to start cooking Smarty Beans.

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Some New Vegetarians May Give Up Because Of Farts

Excess gas can cause discomfort and sometimes actual pain as well as embarrassing flatulence. Savvy Vegetarian thinks that some new vegetarians give up for that very reason.

HOW TO MAKE BEANS NOT MAKE YOU FART [excerpt]
by Judy/Savvy Vegetarian

First of all, why do beans make you, if I may be so bold…fart? The truth is it is not the beans themselves that are responsible for the gas and odor. Actually, it has to do with your digestive system and the bacteria that call your digestive system home. Beans contain a type of natural sugar called oligosaccharides. These are hefty molecules that are too big to be absorbed through the lining of the small intestine. Normally, molecules too large to pass through this lining are broken down by enzymes in the body. Unfortunately, the human body does not produce an oligosaccharide enzyme.

So the oligosaccharides go on their merry way to the large intestine, where the hundreds of strains of bacteria colonizing this part of your body begin to eat them and break them down. The bacteria that live in your large intestine are not harmful to you and help your body to break down insoluble plant fibers that can’t be digested. But the “help” they give your body in digesting beans can have some odoriferous side effects. As the bacteria take in the bean sugars, they release gas.

But beans are so good for you, so full of protein and fiber and so tasty when properly prepared, that it would really be a shame not to be able to eat them. Here’s how you can enjoy beans without fear…
Judy/Savvy Vegetarian [read more]

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Will Adding Baking Soda to Beans Prevent Flatulence? [excerpt]
WiseGeek.com
Many people experience some type of gastrointestinal discomfort after consuming different kinds of beans. However, baking soda is often touted as a great solution for this type of problem. But does adding baking soda to beans really accomplish anything? The answer is yes. Here are two different approaches to adding baking soda to beans that work for many people.

Perhaps the most common approach is soaking beans in water with baking soda added…
WiseGeek.com [read more]

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More tips: Cook your own beans, especially if the weather is cool and it is not heating up an already hot house. Soak beans thoroughly to allow the oligosaccharide sugars to leach out. Change the soaking water a few times to avoid having the sugars re-absorbed into the beans. Cooking the beans slowly can help too. Put the beans in a large pot and cover them with water. Bring them to a boil and take them off the heat. This breaks the capsules surrounding the beans and allows stachyose, verbascose and raffinose, the gas-causing sugars, to escape into the water.

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EXPERTS MAKE FLATULENCE-FREE BEAN [excerpts]
News.BBC.co.uk

Beans have a fearsome reputation for inducing flatulence. A method of creating super-nutritious but flatulence-free beans has been developed by scientists.
Beans are a cheap and key source of nutrition especially in the developing world, but many people are thought to be put off by antisocial side effects.

A Venezuelan team says fermenting beans with certain friendly bacteria can cut the amount of wind-causing compounds and boost beans’ nutritional value.

The research appears in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.

Despite the obvious social concerns, there is no physiological harm from the flatulence caused by eating beans.

Dr. Frankie Phillips
British Dietetic Association
Flatulence is caused by bacteria that live in the large intestine breaking down parts of food – such as soluble fiber – that have not been digested higher in the gut.

Beans, such as the black bean commonly eaten across Central and Southern America and tested by the team, contain many of these compounds.

Researchers from the Simon Bolivar University in Caracas found that by boosting the natural fermentation process by adding a particular type of bacteria, called Lactobacillus casei (L casei), the amount of these indigestible wind-causing compounds was reduced.

Soluble fiber was reduced by two-thirds and the amount of raffinose, another flatulence-causing substance, by 88.6%…

The team led by Marisela Granito…
News.BBC.co.uk [read more]

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