White Flour = Empty Calories

History of White Flour Prior to 1900, most bread was baked at home with fresh flour. Our grandmothers and great grandmothers would go to the miller and buy fresh flour, or they would mill it at home themselves. In the late 1800’s however, food processors discovered if they sift away the BRAN and the oil-laden GERM from the flour, they’d have a product that would not spoil. (see diagram) Steel rolling mills quickly replaced the local miller, and in 1910, white flour became food for the masses. Immediately epidemics of […]

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