If you're looking for a whole-grain health bonanza with just a few minutes of kitchen time, you've picked up the right book! Modern flour mills and bread machines turn bread making into a task no more complicated than grinding beans and brewing breakfast coffee! Flour Power tells you how to compare, locate and buy one of the thirty different mills on the market, how to buy the "right" wheat and how to make delicious, light, whole-meal loaves -- every time.
Guaranteed Whole-Grain Health.
But why bother grinding flour at home? Flour Power explains why virtually all commercial flours (even "whole wheat") have lost fiber, vitamins, minerals, enzymes and phytochemicals during processing and storage. A diet rich in whole grains has been linked to vastly improved health and lower incidences of diseases such as bowel and colon cancer, hemorrhoids, diverticular disease and cardiovascular disease. But in many cases, researchers aren't absolutely certain which components in the whole grain are actually doing the good work. The only safe way to get all the health benefits is to eat all the grain!
Flour Power also tells you how to get whole grains into the diets of gluten sufferers; grind flour manually, if you prefer; ensure food self-sufficiency in case of natural disasters; make a gourmet cook euphoric; prepare an endless variety of delicious (and healthful!) breads, cakes, cookies, muffins, biscuits, cornbread, etc.; grind other items like corn, rye, beans, spelt, quinoa, even peanut butter; and much, much more.
