Optimize Your Diet With Multi-colored Foods Together With Whole Grains
The foods that are found in nature that are the most multi-colored also provide the highest dietetic worth for our bodies. There are very few "white" foods that offer much nutrition, cauliflower and jicama are the only remarkable exceptions. Orange, red, purple, green and even brown foods offer the most dietetic significance. White flours and white rice are particularly void of nutrition.
Years ago, most breads and flour products were made from exceedingly healthful whole grain flour. This flour is a number of hues of brown but not at all white. Whole grain flour is made from the intact seed including the fiber-rich outside bran layer and the germ. However, whole grain flour has a propensity to spoil faster and also to attract weevils. In an attempt to conserve baked goods for a longer interval of time, white flour was invented.
So in order to maintain foods for a longer phase of time, flour prepared from only the endosperm of the seed was developed. This flour was fluffy and white and frequently even bleached with chemicals in order to make it white and appealing. It is interesting to note that while whole grain flour will draw weevils, white flour is actually a natural insecticide because insects cannot subsist on a nutritional regime of pure white flour, as there is not enough nutritional value.
This greatly refined white flour became a big hit. People enjoyed the fluffiness of it and the appealing white foodstuff that it made. However, it was soon discovered that this pretty white flour contained almost no food value so in an endeavor to recapture some of the dietetic value that had been lost, the flour was enriched by adding back in 4 vitamins and minerals. However, this made little differentiation because 15 vitamins and minerals had been lost and none of the roughage was added back in.
It is regrettable but even today the mass of the breads and baked goods on our store shelves is made from this nutritionally devoid flour. Even the so-called "wheat" breads often list enriched flour as the main component. If you want to get the maximum food value from breads and baked products you need to make sure that the first ingredient listed on the label is not enriched flour but whole grain flour.
White foods tend to be void of the most important nutrients. The more processed a food is the less nutritious it tends to be. White rice is similar to white flour in its nutritional value. In order to receive the uppermost dietary value you need to look for whole grain foods and foods that are prepared from whole grains are never white but rather they are shades of brown.
Multihued foods are necessary when it comes to nutrition. Purple fruits and vegetables provide important antioxidants counting anthocyanins and resveratrol. Orange vegetables and fruits offer beta-carotene and the green vegetables and fruits provide a beneficial selection of necessary minerals, vitamins and antioxidants. The most nourishing diets are the most multi-colored diets.
So if you want to make best use of your nutrition, eliminate all of the white foods, except for cauliflower and jicama, of course. Boost your intake of colorful vegetables and fruits and add in lean protein sources such as lean meats, fish or poultry or if you are a vegetarian you can add in a range of beans and legumes for a protein source. And make sure that your bread is made from whole-grain flour and not enriched flour.
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