Episode 38: How to Choose the Best….?-Flour Edition

Welcome to our mini series titled: “How to Choose the Best ____.” In this episode we cover FLOUR! Specifically wheat flour.

 

Topics covered:

Learn all about wheat as a plant. How it is catagorized, treated, and labled. 

We give you the information so you can feel empowered to make the best choices for your family. 

Additives to commercial flour.

The history of milling wheat and flour. 

How to “properly prepare” grains. 

The two schools of thought on Phytic Acid and anti-nutrients.

 

Ancient grains we mentioned: 

Durum

Einkorn/Emmer

Kamut/Khorasan

Spelt

Resources Mentioned: 

Zach Bush  (glyphosate) 

Stephanie Seneff  (glyphosate)

Sally Norton (anti-nutrients in plants) on The Wise Traditions Podcast

The Mock Mill (stone mill for home use)

Azure Standard (for buying wheat berries)

Bread Beckers (for buying wheat berries)

Food Nanny (kamut)

Bob Quinn (kamut)

Bob’s Red Mill (kamut)

Organic Bread of Heaven (for buying bread products shipped)

Berkshire Mountain Bakery (for buying bread products shipped)

Janie’s Mill (mill that ships flour)

Marvel and Make Flour (Corey’s friend Brittany who sells flour in Brunswick, GA)

Cooked - Michael Pollan’s documentary

 

Books Mentioned: 

Nourishing Traditions, by Sally Fallon

Flour Lab, by Adam Leonti

The Essential Home-Ground Flour Book, by Sue Becker

Sourdough School, by Vanessa Kimble

Einkorn, by Carla Bartolucci 

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Dr. Weston A. Price

 

Other Resourced Used:

What Is It? Wednesday: Bromated and Bleached Flour

What is a GMO?

 

Popular Weed Killer Deemed Probable Carcinogen by UN

 

Bugs, rodent hair and poop: How much is legally allowed in the food you eat every day?