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Rami Niemi explains how beans turn into farts for Men's Health

Date
11 September 2014

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I have ALWAYS wanted to know the ins-and-outs of the whole beans and farts thing, and there is no one else on this earth I’d rather have explain it to me than Rami Niemi. This animation commissioned by Men’s Health and animated by Vancouver creative studio Giant Ant is the perfect blend of funny, well-executed and actually informative. A lot of the words popping up such as “oligosaccharides” or “pepsin” took me winging straight back to double biology, followed by the joyous realisation that I am now a grown up and I have the option to turn off or walk away whenever I get bored – wahey! Saying that, this animation is so well made it doesn’t even reach boring – if only all scientific matters could be explained in a one-minute-long animation by your favourite illustrator.

An illustration on a yellow background shows a line of eggs facing a tin of “BEANS”. One egg has been cracked open into a bowl, while another looks on with a sad expression.
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Rami Niemi and Giant Ant: How a Bean Becomes a Fart for Men’s Health

An illustration on a yellow background shows a small figure labelled “Pepsin” sitting at the end of a conveyor belt. The belt carries blocks labelled “Carbs”, “Proteins” and “Fat”.
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Rami Niemi and Giant Ant: How a Bean Becomes a Fart for Men’s Health

An illustration on a yellow background showing a simplified diagram of the “colon” and “blood” streams. A small figure labelled “other enzyme” stands near a dotted oval, while an arrow points towards “oligosaccharides”.
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Rami Niemi and Giant Ant: How a Bean Becomes a Fart for Men’s Health

A black and white illustration on a yellow background showing a biological process. A figure in a top hat is surrounded by “1,000,000,000 good bacteria” and diamonds, which lead to “fermentation” and “short-chain fatty acids” before ending at a fuel canister.
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Rami Niemi and Giant Ant: How a Bean Becomes a Fart for Men’s Health

An illustration of a trumpet on a bright yellow background. A black, wavy line connects to the mouthpiece, and a speech bubble to the right reads “TOOOOT!”.
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Rami Niemi and Giant Ant: How a Bean Becomes a Fart for Men’s Health

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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