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Some experts even recommend avoiding certain vegetables including onions, radishes, cabbage, celery, carrots, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower. But if you avoided some of these foods, especially the nutritious vegetables, you'd be missing out on valuable vitamins and nutrients just because you're afraid of gas.
They can be caused by something as simple as swallowing air or eating the wrong foods. Less often, gas and bloating are signs of something imminently more serious, ranging from intestinal disorders to potentially life-threatening malignancies in the lower digestive tract, such as colorectal cancer. Common Causes of Gas and Bloating The two main causes of gas are swallowed air and the breakdown of food that leads to the production of gas. The latter is especially true when foods are high in sugar, starch, or fiber.