# Best foods for farting **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309 "2017-08-11T01:24:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/21 "2017-08-11T20:24:34Z")
Fiber One bars. In a sad, sad class of their own. Not even White Castle can challenge them. [https://www.fiberone.com/our-foods/?category=craveable-bars](https://www.fiberone.com/our-foods/?category=craveable-bars) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/22 "2017-08-11T21:02:38Z")
Yeah, those were mentioned in a Weight Watchers meeting with the caveat, “well, they do make you…” and everyone in the room nodded; the speaker didn’t even need to finish the sentence. I am still at work, fighting to hold back the results of pork and beans and hot dogs from lunch. And for me, Burger King onion rings top the list. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/23 "2017-08-11T21:10:45Z")
…need answer fast? ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/24 "2017-08-11T21:52:08Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > 50 eggs Good user name/post combo ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/25 "2017-08-14T05:02:30Z")
The navy bean soup from Spire’s restaurant can produce enough gas to allow one to execute a perfect triple flutter blast and a couple of freeps. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/26 "2017-08-14T12:58:19Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > They’ve never sampled home brew either. Home-brewed beer, with active yeast in it, will produce weapons-grade gas in weaponizable volumes in just about anybody. QFT! I don’t care what ya’ll say, but if you don’t drink homebrew, \*you just really don’t understand. \* Toss in some sunflower seeds, maybe a hard-boiled egg, some Brussel sprouts and you become a serious threat to infants and the elderly and other at-risk groups. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/27 "2017-08-14T15:16:49Z")
Raw cabbage Raw rutabaga Pearl onions That is all. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/28 "2017-08-14T15:34:22Z")
> [@K364](#): > > Good user name/post combo Mangethentoot ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/29 "2017-08-14T15:55:00Z")
No love for Jerusalem Artichokes/Sunchokes? One could power the house from their effects, with a suitable turbine. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/30 "2017-08-14T16:42:02Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > No love for Jerusalem Artichokes/Sunchokes? > > One could power the house from their effects, with a suitable turbine. “_which way soever they be dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a filthy loathsome stinking wind within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented, and are a meat more fit for swine than men._” - John Goodyer ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/31 "2017-08-14T17:42:43Z")
I’m thinking sauerkraut w/ onions washed down with copious quantities of home brewed beer. Followed shortly thereafter by a brief but vigorous period of exercise. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/32 "2017-08-14T19:33:41Z")
Atkins meal replacement bars. While they may not be as strong in scent they are definitely high on the juiciness scale. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/33 "2017-08-14T21:39:43Z")
Never had the issue with fiber bars and flatulence, but, yes to homebrew! I’ll amend my answer to White Castle + homebrew. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/34 "2017-08-14T21:51:01Z")
It’s specific to Fiber One bars. Try one, I dare you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/35 "2017-08-14T22:03:35Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > It’s specific to Fiber One bars. Try one, I dare you. 😃 Those are, indeed, the ones I eat. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/36 "2017-08-14T22:16:00Z")
Eating raw potatoes had given me the worst gas in my life. ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/37 "2017-09-06T15:21:44Z")
Sugar free mints or candies sweetened with Xylitol. My Dad is diabetic so Mom bought some small round hard candies with Xylitol. Had some when I was there. Three small candies (about the size of a dime) yielded an incredible volume of very noxious gas for about 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/38 "2017-09-06T16:17:44Z")
According to my wife, just about anything I have other than water. ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/39 "2017-09-06T22:29:17Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > They’ve never sampled home brew either. Home-brewed beer, with active yeast in it, will produce weapons-grade gas in weaponizable volumes in just about anybody. Amen. Especially with a roasted garlic appetizer. Been there. Done that. Without a nearby dog to blame it on. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/40 "2017-09-06T22:37:06Z")
General rule: Complex carbs (Milk, beans, beer, etc.) give magazine capacity. Sulfur containing foods (Cabbage, broccoli, onions, garlic) give range and striking power. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309.md?page=3)