In The Beginning Was The Bread

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The bread is very useful and we should include it in our menu regularly. It is preferable to eat hard bread, not freshly baked.

Hard bread = a healthy stomach

Bread restores the body after mental fatigue. Improves liver function. Accelerates the production of red blood cells. Bread is the best food during fasting.

It is clear that bread is one of the main foods of man. It is made from different varieties of wheat, but bread can also be made from rye, oat, corn or soy flour.

Bread contains from 5 to 14 percent protein, up to 3 percent fat, up to 2.5 percent mineral salts, potassium, sodium, calcium, phosphorus, iron and magnesium salts, and the percentage is different in different types of bread.

Bread is also rich in vitamins - B1, B2, PP, E, but the finer the flour and the less bran, the bread is poorer in protein, vitamins, minerals and cellulose. Breads made from white flour contain a lot of carbohydrates - up to 53 percent, and 100 g of bread has about 250 calories. In black and rye breads, carbohydrates are up to 37 percent. In these breads there are more vitamins, proteins and cellulose. This type of bread is recommended to improve digestion and is therefore included in various diets for weight loss.

Bread is tastier when it is warm and freshly taken out of the oven, but it is more useful to eat bread that has been left for a day. Then chew longer and grind best. Bread must be well baked, because it cannot be fully absorbed by the body if it is sticky, unbaked, without pores and is inelastic.

The composition of bread is different in its different parts. The bark contains more dextrins and soluble proteins.

The preparation of bread goes through three stages - kneading, rising and baking.

- In the first stage - Kneading turns the proteins and starch of the flour into a colloidal solution.

- Second stage - Fermentation partially breaks down proteins and starch into simpler sugars.

- Third stage - Baking turns the starch on the bark into dextrins with a sweet taste and caramelizes the sugars. In this way, the finished bread is easier to grind and digest.

Bread satisfies up to 1/3 of a person's protein needs, without, however, supplying the essential amino acids - lysine, methionine, tryptophan. They must be obtained from meat and milk proteins.

The vitamin content of bread can stabilize the nervous system. It tones the body after strenuous mental work, improves liver function, accelerates the production of red blood cells. With its valuable microelements, bread is useful for the overall proper metabolism in the body, for its growth and development.

Black bread is suitable for those who complain of lazy gut. It is also useful in diabetes, overweight, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, anemia, fatigue.

Consumption of bread should be limited in obesity, diabetes, etc., but should not be excluded from the menu. It is important for human health.