Vitacost Gas Enzyme Alpha-galactosidase - 300 GalU per Serving - 120 Chewable Tablets

It works as well or better than Beano.

After trying out a well known enzyme product for suppressing abdominal gas discomfort and finding that it works pretty well, I looked for a competitor that provides the same ingredients. Vitacost popped up on my Google and Amazon searches, so I ordered a bottle (from Amazon) with twice the number of tablets at a much lower price than the famous brand. The tablets are pleasant tasting to chew and work very well and fairly quickly to stop the generation of gas at the source. After all, it is the same amount of the same ingredient per tablet as the name brand. I am happy. Go for it!

This product tastes terrible and it didn't work; I still had gas! What a waste of money.

This is much less expensive than the name brand. It is very easy to use and tastes good when chewed. I am not sure how effective it is, and I cannot seem to get a straight answer about whether I should use it or not from at least three different physicians. That is why I did not rate it 5 stars. Incidentally the supplier was great with very fast standard shipping and low cost.

It works. No nasty flavor. Easy to swallow.

One great thing about informing yourself about medicine is that once you know the active ingredient, nothing else matters. Sure there variables such as bioavailability, but most of the time, "how much active ingredient is there?" is the question you should ask.These tablets have 300 GalU each. Bean-O has 150. (GalU is a measure of the active ingredient, alpha-galactosidase)Vitacost tablets are, as of this writing, about 8 cents/pc. Bean-O are 10 cents/pc.Therefore:• One Vitacost tablet is worth two Bean-O tablets• You get one-and-a-quarter more pills for your money• You get two-and-a-half times more actual medicine than Bean-O (remember to take half as many pills!).

I tried to find a less expensive generic product similar to beano. This is not nearly as effective. You can chew the tablets but they taste yucky.

Great product for lower cost than Bean-O with the added benefit that it doesn't contain any wheat for gluten sensitive folks (as Bean-O does). It has a slight, but mild orange flavor that's nice. I had been taking Bean-O for years to help with processing wheat because I am gluten sensitive, but found it wasn't as helpful as I had hoped. Then I discovered it actually had wheat in it! But this product has none and really helps for those very few times when I grow a wild hair and just have to have a piece of bread. A few of these chewables does the trick.