If you parboil the beans, rinse them, then soak them overnight in fresh water, you will find they lose a lot, but not all of the gassiness.
Also, if you make a vow to eat beans regularly, and I mean at least every other day, you will develop the digestive enzymes on your own, and you won’t find that they make you uncomfortable. We learned that from experience.
Stay with the garbanzos and lentils until you develop the enzymes before branching out into the red beans...
I never thought about parboiling them. I do, however, soak my Great Northern Beans overnight, rinse and add fresh water to start the soup.
It's amazing how it takes the "gas" out of the beans..:)
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That's the ticket with all gassy foods -- your body needs to eat fiber regularly, and then it won't bother you.
Wish I could say the same about dairy products! LOL! No ice cream with company!
Another way to get away from the gas of beans is to use them as sprouts-they go into soups and meatloaf etc with no problem.
And beans (check to see what your flour mill does not like, such as oily nuts) run through the flour mill can be added to anything. Meatloaf, soups, casseroles, thinking in terms of adding some protein, although as mentioned, incomplete. But it adds nutrition.