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Reader's question from the SuppVersity's Instagram page: "I wonder if just having a small serving of beans before a meal would have good effects also. Red velvet, black, etc." - Johan Those of you who already follow the SuppVersity on Facebook will have seen the news item ( in the infographic section ) about the latest bean-carb-blocker study. Some may even have seen that there were a lot of comments, comments in which you repeatedly found the question whether, instead of the stupid bean extract, one wouldn't be able to simply eat a bunch of beans before or with the meal and see the same potentially weight-reducing effects that were reported in the study. Well, it turns out it is not that easy to find an answer to this question - especially not one that is workable, i.e. "eat exactly X grams of THIS type of beans at timepoint T to improve your glucose metabolism by Z and lose BETA kg of weight in GAMMA weeks." What I could come up with, however, ...

I am pretty sure that putting means onto your pizza will also work, but probably only due to replacing unhealthier stuff ;-) It sounds funny, but eating a 188g of canned, well-chewed navy beans, 62.5g whole navy bean powder, 184g of whole canned green or their pureed counter-part, or simply chewing down 48g of Eston lentil powder or 148.8g of canned or pureed chickpeas will ameliorate the glucose response to a standardized pizza meal. Speaking of which: The nutritional composition of the pulse treatments and control is listed in Table 1. All treatments and control were of similar available carbohydrate content (38·8 g), with 25 g from the test ingredient (pulses or whole-wheat flour) and 13·8 g from the tomato sauce. It may also be that beans modulate your gut microbiome   Fiber for Female Fat Loss Sweeteners & Your Gut Foods, Not Ma- cros for the Gut Lactulose For Gut & Health Probiotics Don't Cut Body Fat The Macrobiotic MaPi2.0 Diet The pulse...