The importance of milling grain for bread.
- Rebecca
- Apr 20, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 20, 2024
Flour and processed foods are stripped of nutrients! Wheat is the most nutrient dense food on earth - containing 40 of the 44 nutrients your body needs to live. Three of the other four nutrients (vitamin A, C, and D) can be attained by sprouting the grain and the fourth nutrient (amino acid Lysine) can be attained by consuming legumes.
The outer edge of a seed of grain contains all of the life sustaining nutrients needed for the seed to grow and for your body to thrive. Big industry figured out years ago, that the flour would become shelf stable by sifting the bran and germ and leaving the endosperm. The nutrient dense outer layer is sold to the feed industry for cattle feed and to the supplement industry for profit.
“This quickly led to disastrous and widespread nutrition problems, like the deficiency diseases pelagra and beri-beri. In response, many governments recommended or required that refined grains be enriched. Enrichment adds back FEWER than 6 of the 40 missing nutrients, and does so in proportions different than they originally existed.” (whole grains council)
Today we are sick with cancer, heart disease, thyroid problems, diabetes, and many new and developing diseases. Bread is being blamed when in reality it is the process our flour has been subjected to. Isaiah 55 says, “Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your earnings for what does not satisfy?” Real bread with freshly milled grain satisfies your hunger, reduces cravings and replenishes vital nutrients.
We gave up our mills for convenience over 100 years ago. Deut 24:6, “no one should take a handmill as security for debt”. God knew how important it was for His people to have fresh bread daily. In Jesus’ time bread was the staff of life. But today we’ve been sold a poisonous product and bread is being demonized. Essentially causing many to question the Word of God and why Jesus would compare himself to bread.
We live in a time of history that is easier than it has ever been, to mill your own grain. Yet we’ve believed a lie, and our health suffers because of it. Milling grain into flour adds 5 minutes to the process of baking and gives you back the health that was stolen from us over a century ago!
Milling grain into flour directly before adding it to a recipe preserves the vital nutrients that are sifted away from commercially milled flour and processed foods. “Give us this day our daily bread” was literal and spiritual!
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