Excerpt from Bragg’s Vegetarian Health Recipes Book — Chapter 14
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One of nature’s greatest gifts to mankind is the tiny, golden berry of grain. Whole wheat, rye, barley, oats – all nourishing nutlike grains – impart rich flavor to the menu and tremendous energy and healthy food value to the diet.
In modern civilization, one of the greatest crimes against food has been committed against the whole-grain! Since it contains elements that do not keep well in storage (for instance, the bran and the germ of the grains), the grain companies have established commercial practices of milling the bran and the germ right out of the grain and offering only a fraction of the original substance as an excuse for a rich, golden grain. They have robbed and refined the grains of much of their life, vitality, vitamins, and minerals, by removing part of their most precious substances! The tiny golden flake (the wheat germ), the rich, nutlike flavor of the bran, and the full-bodied flavor of the completely blended grain flavor, are lost forever in the refining processing.
I agree that refining wheat is made our society obese. My 15 yr. old son says, “The whiter the bread-the sooner your dead!”. My cousin and I just talked about using whole wheat flour for our pizzas! Thanks for the valuable info…
Comment by Blog Buddy — December 5, 2008 @ 12:07 PM