subject: Home Made Bread Is Healthier [print this page] The most popular food in many countries is bread and likely to remain so in the foreseeable future.
Bread is one food that has history behind it and people have been consuming bread for hundreds of years.
The development of leavened bread can probably also be traced to prehistoric times.
The preparation of bread is done by making dough first by mixing flour,water and other ingredients of our choice and baking the prepared dough.
Before the arrival of mass production companies,bread was baked at home for consumption.
The process of bread making was messy and time consuming so people chose commercial bread and stopped making bread at home.
Unfortunately the quality of the commercial bread available in stores is not always what is claimed to be.
There are significant disadvantages when you buy commercial bread.
Commercial bread contains traces of toxic materials such as preservative chemicals,pesticides,insecticides,anti-fungal chemicals,bromides,aluminum and many other chemicals.
These contaminants cause allergic reactions,disturbances in the bowel movement process and interfere with the digestive system thereby adversely affecting our health.
They may also create uncomfortable symptoms such as diarrhea,bloating,headaches and general lack of energy.
They may also adversely affect our hormones to cause hormone related ailments such as infertility.
If you make your own bread at home these problems do not arise.
The health advantages of home made bread are many compared to commercial bread.
Anything made at home is bound to be healthier to commercial bread because you take enough care to add pure unadulterated ingredients which contain no toxic chemicals.
Another plus point is that home made bread is fresh and tasty. We can create many different tasty varieties by simply changing the ingredients.
Home made bread is healthier because it has naturally occurring nutrients unlike commercial bread in which all natural nutrients are stripped off during the manufacturing process. Even if commercial bread is enriched with vitamins and minerals it can not match the naturally occurring nutrients present in home made bread.
