Bread is a staple food that has been enjoyed by humans for thousands of years. However, the commercialization of bread has led to a significant decrease in its nutritional value.
Store-bought bread, particularly white bread, is loaded with preservatives, additives, and chemicals that can negatively affect your health. The good news is that there is an alternative, and it comes in the form of sourdough bread.
Sourdough bread is made using an ancient form of bread leavening that relies on a mixture of wild yeast and lactic acid bacteria found naturally in flour. This method of leavening has numerous health benefits and is the only healthy option when it comes to bread.
Why Sourdough is the Only Healthy Option
Compared to regular bread, sourdough bread contains higher levels of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Sourdough bread is also easier to digest and has lower levels of toxins.
The fermentation process involved in making sourdough bread results in lower amounts of gluten and antinutrients, as well as higher levels of prebiotics. Prebiotics promote the growth of healthy gut bacteria, which can improve your digestion.
Sourdough fermentation produces changes in the bread that may help control blood sugar better than bread made using traditional baker’s yeast.
This is due to the presence of acetic acid, which slows down the rate at which glucose is released into the bloodstream.
Making Sourdough Bread at Home
There are two ways to get your hands on a loaf of sourdough bread. The first is to visit your local bakery, but not all bakeries make their bread in-house, so it’s best to ask how they bake their goods. If they refuse to share that information, it’s best to take your business elsewhere.
The second option is to bake your own bread. Making sourdough bread at home is a rewarding experience, and the good news is that it’s not as complicated as you might think.
To make sourdough bread, you’ll need a very active and good starter. Start by mixing flour and water in a bowl and let it sit for a few days, stirring occasionally. This mixture will attract natural yeasts and bacteria from the air, creating a starter that you can use to make your bread.
Once you have your starter, mix flour, water, and salt to create your dough. Knead the dough and let it rise before baking it in the oven. There are numerous recipes and videos available online to help guide you through the process of making sourdough bread.
Conclusion
If you want to include bread in your diet, sourdough bread is the way to go. Not only is it more nutritious than regular bread, but it’s also easier to digest and has numerous health benefits.
Whether you choose to buy it from a local bakery or make it at home, sourdough bread is a healthy and delicious option that you’ll enjoy for years to come.
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Store-bought bread is destroying your body. Your morning toast has more sinister effects than you know. If you want to include bread in your diet, the way to go is make sourdough bread yourself.
This article is part of a series about ancient recipes to prepare yourself. The others are about ghee, bone broth, kefir and ice cream.
Humans have been making bread for at least 10.000 years. It’s a part of who we are, and humans treated it as an art until big companies began warping it in the name of profit.
The easiest way to tell a bread’s quality is by the number of ingredients. At its core, real bread has flour, water and salt.
As someone who suffered diabetes onset about 2 years ago & had to start monitoring diet more closely, I can attest that the carbs in grains (breads, pasta, cereals, rice, crackers, etc.) play greater havoc on blood sugar levels than sugar alone, yet Americans live on this stuff.
— Emil Leakage (@EmilLeakage) July 6, 2020
What sits on the store shelves is a whole different beast. Since being commercialized in the 1920s, Big Bread has resorted to ever-increasing ways to shorten the baking process while extending shelf-life.
The result has created a Frankenstein-like food: The Almighty White Bread. Aka ‘Dead Bread’ The toxins pumped into this bad boy make seed oils look like mineral water.
If you want to eat quality bread, sourdough bread is the way to go. You have two options here, the first being to visit your local bakery.
Be careful. Not all bakeries make their bread in-house, if you can believe it. Ask the baker if & how they bake their goods. If they refuse to share that info, take your business elsewhere.
Your second option is to bake your own bread. It’s an involved but highly rewarding experience. I recommend everyone try it at least once. In this article you’ll find the directions of how I did it myself.
Why sourdough?
Sourdough uses an ancient form of bread leavening. It relies on a mix of wild yeast and lactic acid bacteria that are naturally present in flour, rather than baker’s yeast, to leaven the dough.
Sourdough bread contains higher levels of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants than other breads. It also contains lower levels of toxins and therefore allows your body to absorb the nutrients it contains more easily than those in regular bread.
It contains lower amounts of gluten, lower levels of antinutrients, and more prebiotics, all of which improves digestion.
Sourdough fermentation produces changes in the bread that may help control blood sugar better than bread made using traditional baker’s yeast.
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Directions
First of all you need a very active and good starter. Get a nice big bowl and your hands on some good quality flour. The higher the protein content of the flour, the better.
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https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/sourdough-bread
Fruits and vegetables and whole grains might be marginally good for you if they keep you from eating ultra-processed junk.
Otherwise, they're mostly worthless.
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