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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (22383)	3/28/2002 12:03:41 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Respond to of 23786

chicagotribune.com From the Chicago Tribune AROUND THE WORLD Gamma rays reduce flatulence chemical March 28, 2002 INDIA -- Indian scientists have come up with a cure for flatulence, by blasting foodstuffs such as beans with gamma rays to knock out the chemicals that cause the problem, New Scientist magazine said Wednesday. Bacteria in the large intestine are responsible for the gases that cause flatulence, and when these bugs eat certain types of carbohydrate called oligosaccharides they produce the gas that leads to flatulence. Jammala Machaiah and Mrinal Pednekar in the food science laboratory at India's Bhabha Atomic Research Center decided to see whether small doses of radiation affected these carbohydrates in various beans common in Indian cuisine. Using standard food treatment technology, they irradiated samples of mung beans, chickpeas, black-eyed beans and red kidney beans with a low-intensity gamma ray, before soaking the beans. The scientists, whose research will appear in the journal Food Chemistry, found the irradiation greatly accelerated a reduction in oligosaccharides, the magazine said.