Healthy Legume Navy Bean Promotes Gut Digestibility

By Kyle J. Norton

Digestibility is a process that a percentage of foods absorbed by the body after intake by an individual.

On the other hand, digestion is the process that breaks down broken down into nutrients through both mechanical and chemical digestion.

The digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract and organs of digestion, including the tongue, salivary glands, pancreas, liver, and gallbladder.

The digestive system plays a critical role in maintaining the proper function of the body involved in the breakdown of food into smaller and smaller components before being absorbed and assimilated into the body.

The digestive disorder is medical conditions that affect the function of the digestive tract, including heartburn/GERD, IBD, and IBS that orchestrate symptoms of bloating, diarrhea, gas, stomach pain, and stomach cramps. 

Although there are many prevalent factors that cause the onset of digestive disorder, some researchers suggested that the imbalanced gut microbiota may be one of the major culprits that elevate the risk of the disease.

Dr. Caitriona M. Guinane, the lead scientist wrote, "The human gut microbiota has become the subject of extensive research in recent years and our knowledge of the resident species and their potential functional capacity is rapidly growing".

And, "the resident microbiota influence host metabolism, physiology, and immune system development while perturbation of the microbial community can result in chronic GI disease.".

The small, white navy bean, also called pea bean or haricot, popular in both dry and green forms, is very popular in Britain and the US, native to Peru. It is now grown and consumed across the world, due to their numerous health benefits.

On finding potential health food which enhances the digestive function, researchers examined the total tract digestibility and safety of cooked navy bean powder when incorporated into a canine diet formulation at 25% (wt/wt).

The randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled for a 28-d dietary intervention study included 21 healthy, free-living, male and female adult dogs of different breeds.

In the comparison of the apparent total tract energy and nutrient digestibility of the navy bean powder diet with the control diet, researchers found that

* Digestibilities and metabolizable energy (ME) content were 68.58 and 68.89% dry matter (DM), 78.22 and 79.49% crude protein (CP), 77.57 and 74.91% organic matter (OM), 94.49 and 93.85% acid-hydrolyzed fat, and 3,313 and 3,195 kcal ME/kg for the navy bean diet and control diet, respectively.)

* There are no differences observed between the groups, particularly in those of flatulence or major change in fecal consistency.

* Navy bean powder at 25% (wt/wt) of total diet was found to be palatable and digestible in tested animals.

Based on the finding and after taking other factors such as complete blood counts, blood biochemical profiles into the account, researchers wrote, "cooked navy bean powder can be safely included as a major food ingredient in canine diet formulations and provide a novel quality protein source,....for chronic disease control and prevention".

Taken altogether, the cooked navy bean processes total tract digestibility that can be used for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases, pending to the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Sources
(1) Effects of cooked navy bean powder on apparent total tract nutrient digestibility and safety in healthy adult dogs by Forster GM1, Hill D, Gregory G, Weishaar KM, Lana S, Bauer JE, Ryan EP. (PubMed)
(2) Role of the gut microbiota in health and chronic gastrointestinal disease: understanding a hidden metabolic organ by Caitriona M. Guinane and Paul D. Cotter. (PMC)