Sour dough bread, healthy or unhealthy?
Who doesn’t enjoy some sour dough bread? In California we had some great sour dough bread. This past June, we were on a Viking cruise and many countries had some delicious sour dough bread. Healthy bread is usually whole grain. There are some whole grain sour dough breads but mostly sour dough is made from white flour. Whether made from white flour or whole wheat flour, are there any health benefits to enjoying some delicious sour dough bread? Why is it called sour dough bread? Instead of relying on baker’s yeast to raise the dough, sour dough bread uses a “ starter ” of a living microbes plus flour and water. This is called “wild” yeast which contains some lactic acid that gives sourdough its tangy taste. Sour dough doesn’t use the commercial baker’s yeast used to make regular bread. This is certainly not a new technique for bread making as it dates back to 1500 BC in ancient Egypt . What nutrients are...