# What To Eat To Generate Most Gas **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 10, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335 "2014-03-10T05:32:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/41 "2014-03-11T04:21:39Z")
If you’re going for quality (smell) as well as quantity, eat some dill pickles, too. Dill pickle farts will peel the paint and make the sheetrock weep. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/42 "2014-03-11T04:39:20Z")
I love roasted chick-peas but, sad to say, they don’t love me back. Give me a bowl of those to snack on and pretty soon I’ll get large quantities of gas that will peel paint off walls, have police driving around the neighbourhood investigating reports of gunfire and make the cats give me the ‘evil eye’ and leave their favourite sleeping spot! Pea-and-Ham soup will do the same to me, but I won’t stop - ever! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/43 "2014-03-11T04:42:43Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > You’ll want to be careful with the fresh veggies, too many and the farts will turn to diarrhea before you know it. Ask me how I know. I _don’t_ want to know. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/44 "2014-03-11T16:32:28Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I take you have never tried Fiber One bars? Yep, I saw this making the rounds not too long ago: > **[ATE too many fiber bars scared to fart](http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/35ihb9)** > > Click to Enlarge... write a comment or recaption! ---
**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:** [March 11, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/45 "2014-03-11T16:38:39Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I take you have never tried Fiber One bars? I eat those all the time, and neve noticed any gas issues. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/46 "2014-03-11T18:15:00Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > If my husband is a decent representative of humans - sunchokes. Damn. I won’t serve them to him anymore. If I’m not mistaken, Jersualem artichokes (sunchokes) are considered to be one of THE most flatulence producing foods you can eat. [http://agardenerstable.com/2014/02/24/taking-the-wind-out-of-jerusalem-artichokes/](http://agardenerstable.com/2014/02/24/taking-the-wind-out-of-jerusalem-artichokes/) > **[Foodie - Live a Delicious Life: Kitchen Tips, Culinary History, Restaurant Recs](https://www.foodie.com/)** > > Foodie is the destination for living a delicious life - from kitchen tips to culinary history, celebrity chefs, restaurant recommendations, and much more. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/47 "2014-03-11T19:34:27Z")
My personal winner for deadly farts is garlic chicken. Technically, Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic, doubling the garlic because “Bam!” then eating the garlic on lots of toast. A close second was binging on sugar free chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![FartLighter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e68b1a/32.png) [@FartLighter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FartLighter)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/48 "2014-03-26T02:38:20Z")
> [@toofs](#): > > If this was the goal, what foods create the most voluminous intestinal gas? > > While we are at it, what foods create the smelliest farts? > > A friend wants to know. Dried apricots (the bagged kind treated with sulfur), Fiber One bars, Haribo sugar free gummy bears (or anything sugar free but IN MODERATION), and whey/beef/egg protein. Would love to see the results if you did all of those at the same time! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/49 "2014-03-26T02:43:43Z")
I confess, I just had to “find all posts by **FartLighter**.” Interesting set of interests you’ve got there. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/50 "2014-03-26T14:48:33Z")
As you may know, I was recently quite sick. The doc gave me some antibiotics to fight the crud, but they also killed off most of the normal bacteria in my innards. The first day or two after I finished the antibiotics were, shall we say…interesting? My innards were readjusting themselves and the explosive results lingered for quite a while. I was threatened with banishment to the garage to sleep in my car until everything cleared up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/51 "2014-03-26T14:59:32Z")
The worst farts I ever had, by far, were from too many fruit smoothies with too much protein powder. My co-workers called maintenance thinking there must have been a sewer backup. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/52 "2014-03-27T10:58:12Z")
Not everyone will have this reaction, but if it works for you, boy will it … work: Dried fruit that uses sulphur dioxide as a preservative. I don’t know about the quantity of gas, but the smell is unforgettable. In a bad way. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/53 "2014-03-28T00:33:13Z")
[Iron tablets.](http://www.walmart.com/ip/Feosol-Caplets-40ct/12518984) Good. God. As a bonus, you will go through a roll of TP every time you…yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335/54 "2014-03-28T15:19:18Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > My personal winner for deadly farts is garlic chicken. Technically, Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic, doubling the garlic because “Bam!” then eating the garlic on lots of toast. Ah yes - had the 40-Clove Chicken dish at [The Stinking Rose](http://thestinkingrose.com/about-sf.htm)in San Francisco several years ago - made me wish the rental car was a convertible the next day. :eek: And in an awful coincidence - that next day was also the [San Bruno Gas explosion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion) - several jokes in rather bad taste were made (but kept to ourselves at the time) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-eat-to-generate-most-gas/683335.md?page=2)