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Your Sourdough is probably killing you
– Based
Did you know your homemade sourdough is not as healthy as you think it is?
2 main things are preventing your bread from being the healing all natural food source God made it to be:
- Separation of the bran and germ from the wheat
- Oxidization
while many have begun to switch to more complete whole grains, they still are buying their flour milled from the factory, and sitting on store shelves for months, or even years!
Grains last forever.
Even some grains found in the pyramids over 3000 years ago have been replanted and germinated successfully
However, the moment you crack grains open they begin to oxidize. In the first 24 hours almost 45% of the nutrition has been oxidized away, and over 90% after the first 3 days.
Once your flour is dead, you cannot revive it. Not even the cultures in sourdough can fix a grain that’s been oxidized
Most Home Mills cook your grains
Sometimes you get what you pay for. with most home mills, that often means tiny stones around 3 inches in size. because they’re so small they have to spin fast to compensate, which leads to excess heat during milling.
Milling is where most of the oxidization occurs.
If your flour get above 119 degrees while milling, your wheat is virtually spent before you can even begin
Based Mills start with low speed high torque motors to drive our 6 in and larger stones.