But avoiding the smelly foods won't necessarily save you from the terrible toots. . Gut bacteria don't turn up their noses at other offerings. Essentially, anything that arrives at the colon intact will appeal to the palate of one bug or another. Stress, for instance, can hurry a meal though your tubing and dump goodies into the large intestine you might have digested given more time. But there's hope for those who love beans, but not the results.
Mold is blessed with the bean enzyme, one alpha-galactosidase.
So AkPharma, Inc., a New Jersey company, extracts the enzyme from a species known to its friends as Aspergillus niger, and sells it to the easily-embarrassed under the brand name Beano. Sprinkle a few drops of enzyme on your beans and enjoy. The enzyme will snap apart those big sugars into handy little sugars, like sucrose, glucose and fructose, your body can use. The stinky bugs in your colon will go hungry. The breath-holding social pauses will go away.