Here's a paper on PubMed that found soaking reduces oligosaccharide content (that's what gets eaten by your intestinal flora to produce flatunelence) but not nu

Here's a paper on PubMed that found soaking reduces oligosaccharide content (that's what gets eaten by your intestinal flora to produce flatunelence) but not nutritional content: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12489819 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12489819 Eliminating sugars and starches likely impacts both the texture and flavor, however. Likely negatively.