1/2 Cup of Trader Joe's Black Beans has 450mgs of Sodium - 20% of your daily allowance.
Winco's Garbanzo Beans have 13% Sodium and Sprouts Low Sodium Garbanzo beans have 140 mgs for 6%. Sprout's cans are a really poor quality tin.
Trader Joe's Organic Kidney Beans have 130 mgs of sodium per serving and 6% of your daily allowance.
Trader Joe's Organic Great Northern Beans: 130mg at 6% of daily allowance. Do I have to soak my raw whole almonds? No, according to this research, it only reduces the phytic acids by 4.75%. The amount of phytic acids in almonds varies wildly from Research Article

1. If you don't soak beans, they take twice as long to cook.
2. Soaking beans solves the gas problem and the bloated stomach. "Phytic acid and raffinose series oligosaccharides (RFOs) have anti-nutritional properties where phytic acid chelates minerals and reduces their bioavailability to humans and other animals, and RFOs cause flatulence." My husband sometimes calls himself Lord Flatula. Reference 1 3. Phytic Acid Impairs Mineral Absorption and inhibits enzymes in your body to do their job to help with food digestion "Phytates represent just one of many anti-nutrients in grains, nuts, tubers, seeds and beans. These include oxalates, tannins, trypsin inhibitors, enzyme inhibitors, lectins (hemagglutinins), protease inhibitors, gluten, alpha-amylase inhibitors and alkylresorcinols. Anti-nutrients exist in these plant foods because they are part of the process of life. The natural world requires them in order to perform many important tasks, including protection against insects, maintaining freshness of seeds for germination, and protection against mold and fungus. In order to consume these foods on a regular basis we must remove the phytates and other anti-nutrients through processing in harmonious ways." soaking beans gets rid of phytic acid, or phytate, an antioxidant found in all edible plant seeds, including legumes. The antioxidant is now called an 'anti-nutrient'. Phytic acid, or phytate, blocks the absorption of iron, zinc, and calcium from the same meal. So if you snack on almonds, phytate would prevent absorbing the minerals from that snack, not your next meal. However, when you eat high-phytate foods with most of your meals, mineral deficiencies may develop over time. This is rarely a concern for those who follow well-balanced diets but may be a significant problem in developing countries where the main food source is grains or legumes. So I should have soaked the almonds before I made them into flour? Reference 1 Does throwing away the water throw away the nutrients? Reference 2 Soaking beans gets rid of this problem. Reference 3
One other thing: I always threw out the water, rinsing every three hours, as I thought it was just dirt in the water - well that's what Claire told me. So I did some research: So as for the soaking liquid, the oligosaccharides have leached out into it. But you know what? So have a few vitamins and a good bit of flavor. So, regardless of what she says, I say don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Why not do a months worth and freeze 2. Take a pound of beans and layout on a baking pans with parchment paper. (The parchment paper just helps you see if there is a pebble amongst the beans.)
Examine closely for pebbles and toss discolored, broken beans.
us an extra cup for each cup of beans. Cook in a crockpot. Cook in an instant pot. Once the beans are cooked, strain them and measure out approximately 1 1/2 cups into a sandwich baggie. Then label, push out the air and freeze. Thaw out in fridge as needed. What about seaweed? Seaweed helps. What about Seaweed.Cooking with Seaweed (Kombu) will help. Also some cumin or fennel.