You Puerto Rican bean eater! Are some of the racist comments that I heard while  growing up in Jersey.Like for some reason eating beans is a God forsaken thing or a sin, I never understood why people will use food to stereo type other people. Anyway I want to talk about the bean the super food of the legume family with all his relatives. Beans are  a great source of proteins, vitamins, minerals and fiber.  In Puerto Rico we cook a varieties of beans form the pinto beans, chick peas, black beans, pink beans, lime beans, kidney beans and the mighty pigeon pea. We have various ways to cook them bake them or refry them any way you "slice it or dice it " its  all good the trick is to put soak them in water for 3 days an changing the water daily .In general, soaking beans and then cooking removes about 50 percent of phytic acid. One report with peas and lentils shows that close to 80 percent of phytic acid can be removed by soaking and boiling. Boiling beans that haven't been soaked may remove much less phytic acid plus it starts the process of germination were the bean gets ready to be a plant and that is why one most cook them at the third day. Then cook them up to your taste.