How does adding baking soda to soaking beans/lentils reduce the gas they make you have?

I've heard a few times that adding a pinch of baking soda to the water you use to soak beans/lentils in, reduces the gas it makes you have. I've not do any measured experiments myself, but I have anecdotal evidence it does help. But what's the science behind it?

Link 1: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Link 2: http://www.pjbs.org/pjnonline/fin58.pdf
Link 3: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
Link 4: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/j...


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