BEAN THERE, DONE THAT!

Bio Mythbusters presentation.

How eating an increased amount of Pork and Beans ™ everyday can increase a persons rate of flatulence.

3- Potassium

Alcos, Paul AdrianCaliguid, PaulTimothyCapila, Nelson JohnOchave, Victor JosephOsorio, Justin ReySatorre, James Carl

Pork and Beans. A typical culinary North American dish consisting mainly of Navy beans and pork strips. Other ingredients such as tomatoes and pepper are also added to the dish to increase flavor. And throughout the decades this simple dish has grown to be a mass produced success.

Flatulence, also known as passing gas, breaking wind, farting, etc. is an involuntary release of gas coming from the digestive track. It is mostly methane, and released via the anus. The farting sound is caused by the vibrations of the butt cheeks caused by a sudden release of air.

We are aware that, due to numerous media influences, many people believe that Pork and Beans have a direct effect to the amount of times a regular person releases gas. And through the great deal of people believing this, we started to question it’s validity. This is why we decided to use this as our myth to be busted.

Our myth to be tested is that if whether or not eating an amount of pork and beans have any direct influence with the rate at which a person farts.

In order to test this Myth, our group shall take this challenge. Each member (except the control) shall take in a specific amount of Pork and Beans daily in a period of 5 days, and tally in a notebook whenever we fart (yeah). After, each member shall stop their intake of Pork and Beans for 5 more days and continue to tally their fart number.

After doing so, each member shall submit their tallies and we shall compare if whether or not the added intake of Pork and Beans have any significant effect to the number at which a person farts. Then we shall compare it to the controls’ results to check whether or not the acquired data can be trusted upon, based on the controls’ own results.

Myth Testers!

Nelson VicJin

Carl Tim

ControlPaul

Each Myth tester were required to take in a specific amount of Pork and Beans (measured through how many grams), every day for 5 days (Dec 16-20), then after tallying all throughout the first half of the experiment, the shall then redo the procedure (Dec 21-25), the only difference is that the added portion of Pork and Beans isn’t present anymore.

The control however shall not partake in the added diet of Pork and Beans, and will still do the procedure for the whole 10 day experiment. And in order to limit the variables for this myth, all members are also advised to limit the foods that they intake that may cause a disturbance in the procedure. In order to solidify the results that would be generated.

So, Let the Games begin!!!

*insert transitional slide depicting the amount of time passed for this experiment here*

Now, the next slides will show the amount of farting that has occurred with each person per day during the 10 day experiment. Hopefully, we can see a dramatic spike in the amount of farts generated from the people who took greater amounts of Pork and Beans during their diets.

Vic Ochave (25 grams of PnB)Pork and Beans

present in diet

Day 1 = IIIIIIII Day 2 = IIIIII Day 3 = IIIII Day 4 = IIIIIIII Day 5 = IIIIII

Total = 33

Pork and Beans absent in diet

Day 1 = IIIII Day 2 = IIIII Day 3 = IIIIIII Day 4 = IIIIII Day 5 = IIII

Total = 27

Tim Caliguid (50 grams of PnB)

Pork and Beans present in diet

Day 1= IIIIIIII Day 2 = IIIII Day 3 = IIIIIII Day 4 = IIIIIII Day 5 = IIIIII

Total = 33

Pork and Beans absent in diet

Day 1 = IIIIII Day 2 = IIIIIII Day 3 = IIIIIII Day 4 = IIIII Day 5 = IIIII

Total = 30

Jin Osorio (75 grams of PnB)Pork and Beans

present in diet

Day 1 = IIIIII Day 2 = IIIII Day 3 = IIIIIII Day 4 = IIIIII Day 5 = IIII

Total = 28

Pork and Beans absent in diet

Day 1 = IIII Day 2 = III Day 3 = III Day 4 = IIIII Day 5 = III

Total = 18

Carl Satorre (100 grams of PnB)

Pork and Beans present in diet

Day 1 = IIIIIIII Day 2 = IIIIIIIIII Day 3 = IIIIIIIII Day 4 = IIIIIIIIIIII Day 5 = IIIIIIIIII

Total = 49

Pork and Beans absent in diet

Day 1 = IIIIIII Day 2 = IIIIII Day 3 = IIIIIII Day 4 = IIIIIIII Day 5 = IIIIIIIIII

Total = 38

Nelson Capila (125 grams of PnB)

Pork and Beans present in diet

Day 1 = IIIIIIIIIIII Day 2 = IIIIIIIIIII Day 3 = IIIIIIIIIIIII Day 4 = IIIIIIIIIIIII Day 5 = IIIIIIIIIIII

Total = 61

Pork and Beans absent in diet

Day 1 = IIIIIIIIII Day 2 = IIIIIIII Day 3 = IIIIIIIII Day 4 = IIIIIIIII Day 5 = IIIIIIII

Total = 45

Paul Alcos (Control)

Pork and Beans absent in diet

Day 1 = IIIIIIIII Day 2 = IIIIIII Day 3 = IIIIIIII Day 4 = IIIIIII Day 5 = IIIIIIII

Total = 40

Pork and Beans absent in diet

Day 1 = IIIIIII Day 2 = IIIIIIIII Day 3 = IIIIIIII Day 4 = IIIIIIIII Day 5 = IIIIIII

Total = 40

Interpretation of DataBased on the data gathered, it seems that the increase of intake of Pork and Beans do have an effect to our rate in which we pass gas. It also seems that amount of added Pork and Beans to our diet has an effect in the increase in the number of times a person passes gas. Also, it is visible in the tallies that each person has a different range of passing gas, but, the experiment still stands as even with the differences in each person, the results seem to be all the same.

ConclusionIt appears to be that eating pork and beans do have an effect to the rate in which a person passes gas everyday. Although we cannot be for certain if whether this is caused by the pork, the beans, both of these two put together, or something else.

Nonetheless, Pork and Beans does have an effect to our farting habits and we came to prove just that. And although this experiment is just a small attempt to uncover some possible basis for this myth, it is more than enough to back up the countless rumors spreading across the world. Therefore, we judge this myth to be, Confirmed!

Bibliography

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Brenna Lorenz (1998) Facts on Farts. Retrieved Jan 6, 2010 from : http://www.heptune.com/farts.html

The Canadian Press (2007) Flatulence Expert Defines ‘Normal' Output Rate. Retrieved Jan 6, 2010. from:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071228/flatulence_expert_071228/