I cooked dried black beans with yellow rice, without soaking them. Will I get sick?

Question

I didn't read the directions properly and I just threw dried black beans in with yellow rice and cooked them together. They were hard but I didn't think anything of it while eating. Then I was told this will make me very sick with food poisoning? True?

Answer

No. You soak beans so they will be soft. They absorb water slowly. Soaking also leeches out the part that causes gas, so you can discard the water and avoid the smelly problem, but you also discard most of the flavor if you do that.

I cooked dried black beans with yellow rice, without soaking them. Will I get sick?

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