Many people experience genuine surprise when they learn about the existence of dietary bread. After all, we are all accustomed to the fact that, with proper or dietary nutrition, starchy foods are almost completely excluded from the diet. But it’s hard for any person to give up bread, since the habit of eating it has been instilled in us from childhood. In addition, it speeds up the saturation process and allows some dishes to become much tastier. And just so that the nutrition of the 21st century could allow its patients to eat flour, diet bread was created. But at the same time, its consumption is also strictly regulated depending on the individual characteristics of the human body and the goals that a dietitian and a patient set for themselves.
Dietary bread - what and how to choose
Diet bread should not raise blood sugar and give a feeling of maximum satiety. The ideal option is bran, which lose very few useful properties when processing grain and are its roughest part. They contain a huge amount of fiber, which allows the body to get enough. Buy healthy bread made by serious companies that monitor their reputation and produce quality goods. Read the contents of the label and the composition of the product if you notice a large amount of sugar or baking powder, in no case do not buy it. Remember, despite the fact that bread is dietary, it is advisable to use it only on the recommendation of a doctor.
Bread: benefits and harms
The bread that we buy in stores is not at all the one that was baked before in Russian ovens. He was really helpful. But even our today's product has a number of positive properties, such as nutrition, ability to quickly saturate the body, speed up metabolism. Truly healthy bread is a source of B vitamins, carbohydrates and proteins, and due to the fact that it contains special bacteria, it strengthens the immune system well.
And who knows that a loaf of bread can help with a headache? To do this, make a poultice by adding to the bread a decoction of the leaves of the plantain. After the flour product has been soaked in the resulting liquid, it must be applied to the head, and the pain will gradually subside.
Specific harm
Is bread good? The benefits and harms of this product are described in this article. You decide. But, in addition to the mass of the above advantages, bread has quite tangible disadvantages. And the most important thing is that our stores offer mainly a yeast product, which very often causes dysbiosis. Also, diet bread is strictly contraindicated for people prone to overweight, and those whose metabolism is too slow. The reason is that he can add a few pounds to anyone as soon as possible.
How not to turn the benefit to harm?
To prevent a loaf of bread from harming, when using a flour product, you should follow a few simple rules. First of all, do not use flour with jam, honey or other products that can cause fermentation and bloating. When preparing sandwiches, it is advisable to replace the sausage or bacon with boiled meat and add vegetables. It is also necessary to minimize the consumption of butter and sweet flour products, as they contain a lot of sugar, and they are very high in calories. It is natural that the benefits of bread are many times greater than the harm, but you need to use it correctly.
Hot and fresh bread - the beginning began
Since childhood, each of us has been familiar with the magical smell of freshly baked bread. When we inhale this aroma and see a fresh crispy bun, a huge effort is to resist the temptation to bite off a bite. But it is worth remembering that hot bread is fraught with some dirty tricks. Nutritionists say that its main danger is that the process of yeast fermentation, already familiar to us, in bread, which has not yet cooled down, is not completely finished. It is because of this in the digestive system that some malfunctions occur, manifested in colic and excessive gas formation. Also, with a large amount of hot bread eaten, it can form a monolithic lump, which can cause indigestion or intestinal obstruction. Fresh hot product is absorbed worse than the one that happened to lie down for several hours. Fresh bread should never be consumed by people suffering from diseases of the digestive system. Before use, flour products must lie in the open air for some time, and excess moisture will naturally be removed from them. For example, in tsarist Russia, freshly baked bread was strictly forbidden, since the healers knew very well about the side effects of fresh baking.
Many may object, saying that they regularly eat freshly baked or warmed buns just before eating. Indeed, for a person who does not have health problems, hot bread is not particularly dangerous, but with frequent use, irritation of the internal mucous membrane of the stomach can occur. This will not happen if you use crackers instead of a soft bun, which are not only absorbed very quickly, but also act as a kind of scrub for the intestine. They bring particular benefit from bran and rye bread.
But there are people who consider the use of bread inappropriate and do not eat it at all. This is because, in their opinion, it is bread that is the main reason for the appearance of excess weight and digestive problems.
A legitimate question arises: is it possible to eat diet bread heated with a toaster or in a microwave? The product, heated in a toaster, has a huge plus: all the yeast that was in it died at a high temperature, and the moisture evaporated, and the fermentation process was absolutely impossible. By and large, breadcrumbs are obtained, the benefits of which were mentioned above.
About the most useful
All nutritionists unanimously say that the most useful flour product is one made from the hardest varieties of wheat. It was such diet bread in ancient times that was prepared in monasteries and taken with them on military campaigns. A flour product made from durum wheat is certainly very useful, it contains a large number of all kinds of vitamins, in addition, it is very nutritious and useful for the body as a whole. But the modern buyer does not always make the choice in favor of this variety of bread.
Home-made yeast-free bread
Ovenless homemade bread in the oven is quite simple and at the same time a very useful kind of baking. Most of the baked goods that are found in our stores contain a certain amount of fungal yeast. Based on this fact, when preparing a yeast-free product, it will be necessary to turn to ancient recipes used by our distant ancestors.
The simplest recipe: a glass of water, 2.5 cups flour, 1 teaspoon of salt with a slide. Fresh dough is kneaded from the products and thick flat cakes are fried in a pan. If you replace the water with kefir and add 1.5 teaspoons of soda, then you get real unleavened bread. It is even tastier to knead the dough with kefir leaven. For its preparation, you need to add flour to kefir to the consistency of liquid sour cream and put in a warm place for a day. After adding more flour, so that the sourdough looks like thick sour cream, mix gently and return to a warm place. After 3-4 hours, large bubbles will appear on the surface - this is a signal that it is time to knead the dough. For kneading you will need 400 g of sifted flour, 400 g of sourdough, 200 g of warm water, 1 teaspoon of salt, 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil, 2 tablespoons of sugar. Knead well and leave in a warm place, covering with a white towel. After 3 hours, carefully transfer the dough into greased forms, leave for another hour, then send it to the preheated oven. Bake at 200 ° C.
Serving such flour products to the table can be carried out together with the first or second dish in hot form. Such hot bread does not harm the body precisely because there are no yeast in its composition.
Sandwich bread
In addition to the types of flour products that we have known since childhood, special bread for toasts has recently appeared on the shelves. This kind of product is sometimes called porous because it is very airy and soft. It is sold cut into pieces for making toast and is usually hermetically sealed. Such bread is very convenient for making various sandwiches or toasting in a toaster. It also makes delicious crackers.
Rye bread and its calorie content
The most popular bread after traditional white is black or rye. He entered our life not so long ago, but he has already got a lot of fans. This is due to the fact that white causes many people problems with excess weight and digestion. Also, rye products are able to remain edible much longer and are less susceptible to the negative effects of external factors.
If you count the calories in black bread, it turns out that they are much less than in white. 100 grams of this flour product contains only 214 kcal. This played a major role in its ever-growing popularity. Calories in black bread are much less than in white.
The most popular black flour product in Russia is Borodino bread with a century of history. Traditional Borodino has a sweet taste with an aftertaste of spices. But modern bakers make some changes to the traditional recipe, thanks to which this bread can be found in different ways.
Sweet bread
In addition to ordinary bread, intended for eating with main dishes, there is also the so-called sweet, which is great for tea or making sandwiches with butter. Raisins, dried apricots and a lot of spices are added to this type of flour product. Sweet bread has an original, very pleasant taste, but there is very little real benefit from it. It is high-calorie, prepared with the addition of a large amount of yeast.
Tastes differ
As we found out, there are a huge number of types of bread for almost every taste. Each of them has pros and cons, but it remains tasty. Which bread to buy depends only on your taste and the goals that you pursue. Bon Appetit!