Making homemade healthier bread

The bread also known as sourdough bread because yeast is used as an ingredient to make the dough, is found in natural food stores and those that sell organic products. If you treat this bread, healthy food, without additives or preservatives, made ​​with flour that can be stored in an airtight container for weeks.

Making homemade healthier bread


The reason is that his rise was induced (from yeast or chemical): this process has been the phytic acid, a substance responsible for the immediate dryness of the bread itself. Even the special bread bakeries should be avoided since it contains lard, olive oil, fats, milk. The industrial bread (packed in medium and long term) that dominate supermarket foods have lots of additives and preservatives that can be harmful to the body.

Some bread, bread type also contain bleaching agents such as ammonia and ethyl alcohol. The prerequisites, to be a bread naturally healthier, is the type of flour used, yeast adopted and, especially, the time between the milling of flour and its use (best be within 48 hours). To grind flour deteriorate rapidly in light, heat or air, thus losing all the nutrients in the grain.

Do you think white bread usually buy in bakeries milled flour is mixed with at least three weeks? Buy the corn kernels and achieve make a bread recipe is the best option, getting a healthy bread, nutritious and filling. Among the breads is the increased consumption of wheat flour.

In shops kamut is also a completely organic bread is made ​​from corn and does not require treatment with pesticides. For other cereals to ensure that the flour that comes with organic certification. It is healthy to incorporate in the daily diet different types of cereals and benefit of all its properties.

In addition, the dietary and health food businesses can find loaves with sesame seeds, sunflower, pumpkin, flax, rich in enzymes and fiber.

The ideal is to vary the type of bread each day, is not addictive and even the taste of the intestine is constantly stimulated to make bread at home (in the oven or on the machine).