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Table Talk(17 November 2005 00:00)But can welsh roast the springboks on the pitch? Article continues below
Fart-free baked beans? so where's the fun in that? They've been a staple in student diets and English fry-ups for years, but baked beans have always had one big drawback - their dramatic effect on human wind production. Now a Cambridge boffin has developed flatulence-free varieties. Dr Colin Leakey has just produced his first six-tonne harvest of a new strain of South American manteca beans. Leakey, 71, has even developed his own "fart-ometer" to measure the amount of flatulence produced by manteca beans compared with other varieties. "In physiological and replicated tests, the manteca beans produced no more flatulence than muesli or any other normal (non-bean) grain crop," he said. The beans have already been grown in industrial-scale trials abroad and are sold in French supermarkets as "haricots non-flatulent". "I call them 'social beans' and am confident that they're relatively wind-free," he said. Source: Caterer & Hotelkeeper |
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