(Continuing the food theme for a second episode, but this time with some GOOD news …)
I never thought much about flour.
Until recently, it was one of the few things I still bought at conventional grocery stores.
Then one day I came across His Saving Grains whole cell crushed wheat #1. I had no idea what it was, but it looked an awful lot like flour and the bag said I could use it 1:1 in any recipe where I’d normally use conventional flour. I bought a bag and instantly knew it was different, just by the texture. Soon, I learned why.
Unlike conventionally processed wheat flours, His Saving Grains whole cell wheat #1 is crushed, not ground, using a patented process that fully retains the germ, or live nutrition, in the grain. The result is a wheat flour that contains all of the unrefined dietary fiber and God-given nutrients it was born with.
In today’s episode, we learn about the history of this Fort Recovery, Ohio-based family business, but we also learn so much about wheat and all the other things His Saving Grains crushes - corn, flax, oats, buckwheat, sunflower, quinoa and coffee(!) - that it’s tough to summarize it all here. A few of my favorites
After 5 years, a sample bag of His Saving Grains crushed wheat still retains all of its original, God-given nutrients and dietary fiber.
In contrast, almost all conventional flour is ground or milled, which ultimately destroys the live nutrition / germ cells and makes it - as far as your body is concerned -nutritionally depleted at best and nutritionally dead at worst … which is why it must later be re-enriched with synthetic nutrients (and yes, this is unfortunately true even of organic flour).
Because it is devoid of its original fiber and natural nutrition, your body processes conventionally milled flour as a simple carbohydrate, like refined sugar (and refined sugars are pretty much public enemy #1 in any body’s fight against chronic disease and cancer).
I am so excited to share this podcast with you today; I guarantee you will walk away with something you didn’t know before.
And if hearing the Bihn family’s story inspires you to purchase some of their products, feel free to check out their website, where you can either order directly or find a list of stores that carry them. You can also read all of the research and evidence they have gathered over the years in support of their claims on the crushed grain products. My only warning is - once you start reading you may never want to go back to regular flour (or any other grains) again!
Lisa
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