The Truth About Your White Bread

Most of us Asians eat cornflakes or bread for breakfast.  For all the picnics I’ve ever had since I was a kid, bread has never been excluded.  It is one of the most common and “staple” food.

How healthy is your bread…really?

Most wheat flour and all-purpose flour – that is white – is bleached.  And BLEACH – known as ALLOXAN – is toxic.  Surprised?

Alloxan is what makes flour WHITER and is used to induce cancer in laboratory rats commonly used for clinical studies (poor animals!)  Alloxan is practically “everywhere” in your cakes, muffins, and any confectionery products that uses white flour (bleached flour).  If you flour is extremely white, most likely it has alloxan.

Some alloxan-containing flour is described as

1. vitamins-fortified flour or
2. permitted flour or
3. refined flour or
4. refined white flour or
5. highly-refined flour

Don’t be fooled, there’s still alloxan in these flour!  Alloxan can be found in:

1. wheat flour or
2. multi-purpose or
3. all-purpose flour

Alloxan causes cancer!

If you want to use wheat or white flour without the toxicity of alloxan, buy real wheat and with grind to powder with a food processor.

Another toxic ingredient in pastry and bread products is BROMINE or BROMATE PHOSPHATE or POTASSIUM BROMATE.

The problem is, bromine is harder to detect because it could be found in bread that do not use white or bleached flour!  Bromine can also be found in:
—>  some noodles (depending on flour),
—>  some brands of potato chips and tortilla chips,
—>  bread, cookies and pastry products,
—>  some baking products and
—>  pesticides (methyl bromide).

You can even  find more soda drinks that may have this insidious killer at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brominated_vegetable_oil

You can find what CDC has to say about Bromine Poisoning: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/bromine/casedef.asp

Since the 1980s bromine has been used to replace iodine, as an anti-cake-ing agent, or as Dr. Mercola calls bromine a “dough-conditioner”.

Iodine exists (and is essential) in every cell, tissue, joint and bones, muscles, skin, organs and our brain.  A lack of iodine plus toxic bromine weakens not only the thyroid glands but also can weaken our immunity to infections and diseases.  As such, adding bromine and recycling/using it as herbicides,  etc must be one of the stupidest most illogical thing food industry could have ever done!)

So here are some other Bread Alternatives….

LEFT:  Pita

Bread alternatives include the brown bread aka Sourdough bread (ask if they use white flour), Pita, Naan, wholemeal/whole grain bread.  Can you think of any more?

For instant savoury (non-sweet) energy bars, use non-flavoured miso flour (from organic miso beans), which requires no cooking – eat instantly after mixing with water, nuts and your favourite dried or fresh fruits (experiment!)  More info on goodness of raw foods can be found in this forum.

LEFT: Cassava Chips with home-made dip

Yucca chips and Cassava chips, lightly-roasted or lightly-salted nuts

As for corn-flakes, it’s just a zero-nutrition food to me, but that will be another blog article!

Perhaps people can explore making bread from:

1. Whole grains (wholemeal bread) like Chia (pronounced as “Kia”) seeds, Quiona Seeds,  Farro seeds,  Barley, Hemp seeds and Bulgar?

2. Buckwheat flour (this is what makes burger bread in MacDonald’s so “springy”)?

Have a food blog?  Know of any other healthier bread alternatives?  Do share by leaving a comment!

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