we do not possess any enzymes that are capable of breaking down larger sugars, such as raffinose etc | Gorman, "Hoabinhian: a pebble-tool complex with early plant associations in Southeast Asia", Science, 1969 |
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[ Discovery Online: The Skinny On Why Beans Give You Gas]• | [ Bulgarian Guide: Bean Soup Recipe]• [ Cook's Thesaurus on Beans]• Domestication, besides involving selection for larger seed size, also involved selection for pods that did not curl and open when ripe, scattering the beans they contained Kaplan 2008:30 |
Bickley Collection, 1919-1980] Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution | |
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These carbohydrates therefore leave the upper intestine unchanged and enter the lower reaches, where our resident bacterial population does the job we are unable to do | This is because they contain large amounts of carbohydrates that human digestive enzymes can't convert into absorbable sugars |