Beans And Plaintain Can Be Harmful, Here Is Why

Beans and Plaintain locally known as Gob3 is one food Ghanaians love so much. Almost everyone in the country eats it. However there are doubts whether beans and plantains are healthy or not, but we will look into that in this article.

This conversation has been going on online for quite a while. Kemi Lopsam, a natural health doctor and an acupuncturist based in Akure, spoke about this in 2019 on a website called Newsroom. According to Lopsam, “cooking food like beans with plantains has no problems. It is a perfect combination that makes digestion easy.” However, cooking beans with ripe plantains is unhealthy.

Ripe plantains can be classified as fruits. She illustrated that heat turns fructose into acid, aillnesses arise from acidity. Acid-forming foods are harmful and dangerous and can cause heart problems, ulcers, and gastrointestinal reflux.

Helping to create a great PH balance of acid and alkaline in the body, beans can form acids too. You are good to go if you give yourself ample time for the beans to digest but some people are allergic to it and must not go close.

She expresses that beans use five to seven hours to digest while ripe plantains use almost three hours. Fruits digest in the terminal ileum and not the stomach rather food digests in the stomach.

Beans need pancreatic enzymes to digest but ripe maintains do not. When eaten combined, the plantains suffer to leave the stomach and go to the terminal ileum, but the beans in the stomach make it hard for them to leave. This struggle begins again until fermentation occurs, which causes many disorders. She advises that plantains should be eaten raw and not cooked

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However, Lopsam might be wrong in her statement about where fruits and food are digested, as both are digested in the small intestine. They are both highly acidic and might cause severe stomach bitter when eaten together.