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Anybody grind their own grain?

  • 09-10-2013 9:45pm
    #1
    hypersonic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭


    I've been reading up about it on American websites and it looks like something I'd like to try! I'd like to try wheat, corn, buckwheat and rye.
    do you think that grinding your own grain would make much of a difference to the nutrition ie fresh, whole, non bleached, non fortified flour vs supermarket flour, or is flour just flour?


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  • #2
    Transform
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,394 ✭✭✭Transform


    wouldnt be a fan tbh as wheat etc are so modified that you are still going to ingest all the toxins they contain.

    I grind and make my own nut butter - dark chocolate nut butter I have made is stunning!


  • #3
    hypersonic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭hypersonic


    Transform wrote: »
    wouldnt be a fan tbh as wheat etc are so modified that you are still going to ingest all the toxins they contain.

    I grind and make my own nut butter - dark chocolate nut butter I have made is stunning!

    I'm definitely in two minds about grains, I don't eat that much bread but I miss pizza, pasta and tortillas!
    I've just finished reading nourishing traditions by sally fallon http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0967089735
    and she offers some usefully info on soaking grains to reduce the phatic acid and using phatese enzyme. but most of our whole grains are steamed to improve shelf life which also neutralizes the enzyme.
    I would be surprised if there isn't a nutritional case for including a modest amount of home made pasta and tortillas in ones diet.
    pasta is semolina and eggs, there is gluten in it but with correct prep there's are worthwhile nutrients too, it's not a prefect food but is the case against gluten so water tight and daming!

    I have begun to wonder if some of the evils of grain are due to poor prep? In my own case unsoaked oats go out the way they go in, so are pretty much undigestable for me, but properly soaked oaks cause no issues at all.


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