Some info on problems in metabolising some dried beans.
Beans beans, good for your heart, the more you eat the more you fart;
The more you fart the better you feel, so eat beans at every meal.
A common tale is problems consuming certain beans, the two issues are bloating from gas and toxic elements and red kidney and soya are more notorious than others; probably as they are so popular.
The farty part
On the gassy side the problem is attributed to long chain sugars that are not broken down sufficiently to be absorbed and then certain bacteria will feed on those sugars, giving off gas. See https://www.missvickie.com/howto/beans/beanframe.html
On the toxic subject:
Red kidney beans: Incidents of food poisoning have been reported associated with the consumption of raw or undercooked red kidney beans. Symptoms may develop after eating only four raw beans and include nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain followed by diarrhrea. For this reason, kidney beans must not be sprouted. A naturally occurring hemaglutin is responsible for the illness, but can be destroyed by high temperature cooking, making the beans completely safe to eat.
Soya Soy beans: Contain an anti-trypsin factor (or trypsin inhibitor) which prevents the assimilation of the amino acid methionine. Soya beans also require careful cooking to ensure destruction of this factor.
Fava or Broad beans are rich in tyramine, and thus should be avoided by those taking monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors. Raw fava beans contain vicine, isouramil and convicine, which can induce hemolytic anemia in patients with the hereditary condition glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD).While uncooked lima beans contain compounds, that can inhibit a digestive enzyme and cause red blood cells to clump together, soaking and cooking the beans renders these compounds harmless.Lima beans have considerable amounts of the naturally occurring substances called purines. Excessive intake of these legumes can cause health problems in persons susceptible to purine-related problems.
Thoughts arise:
a) It would appear that sprouting the abovementioned beans may not a good idea? and b) What is the score on eating them young and fresh in or out of the pods?
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