Published 2014
Black, pinto, and red kidney beans are canned successfully (see canning).
baked beans are produced commercially from navy and pea beans grown in the USA. The dish which inspired the canning of this product was Boston baked beans.
Some cooks add a pinch of bicarbonate of soda to the soaking water to render dried beans more digestible and to shorten cooking times. The latter aim is met, since the bicarbonate helps to dissolve the cell walls, a process which also speeds the exit of ‘the flatulating oligosaccharides’ (as the substances causing flatulence are known) from the beans. Unfortunately, however, loss of desirable nutrients also occurs.
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