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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I can’t digest enriched supermarket wheat myself. However, I believe there is an important p,ace for grains and seeds and nuts in our diet as long as that place is far down the list in quantity of what we eat. Grains shouldn’t be at every meal. But our gut bugs create our health and well being, even our moods. We need the RIGHT kinds populating in us to be healthy. And they love resistant starch. Grains and tubers are an important part of their diet.

The best grains are the least adulterated ones. Steel cut oats, for example. But also white rice is good because it has a lot of resistant starch, especially when cooked and then cooled (like in sushi or other Japanese cold rice dishes). Prepared things like breads are healthier if they are fermented, like a real sour dough.

I can bake with organic white whole wheat with no iron or other “enrichment” added. But I don’t touch anything made with wheat that I did not personally make. I live gluten free when I eat out. Lettuce wrap is better than those hideous buns anyway!

But you can get plenty of starches your gut bugs need from cooked potatoes and sweet potatoes and other tubers and roots. You could live grain free and still have happy gut bugs!


34 posted on 12/06/2016 12:07:29 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

https://jovialfoods.com/einkorn/

This is another good alternative. I tried it and it tastes really good. I am too sensitive right now to use it to make baked goods very often but it is definitely an alternative if you bake a lot

(Einkorn wheat , a low gluten ancient form of wheat - pre hybridization)


36 posted on 12/06/2016 2:41:27 PM PST by boxlunch (Pray for Donald Trump's safety, for his family and cabinet. Make America Good Again!)
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