Gluten good or bad?!
Question: Is gluten bad for you?
Answers: Is gluten bad for you?
The way grain is processed today,makes it impossible to digest.This makes you at high risk for cancer,and gluten intolerence is associated with autism.Check out the book Nourishing Traditions.It talks about how our ancestors fermented the grain or soaked it for several days before making it into flour.Gluten intolerence can cause infertility.Check out the book Perscription For Nutritional Healing.
Gluten is a mixture of the proteins gliadin and glutenin. These exist, conjoined with starch, in the endosperms of some grass-related grains, notably wheat, rye, and barley. Gliadin and glutenin comprise about 80% of the protein contained in wheat seed. Being insoluble in water, they can be purified by washing away the associated starch. Worldwide, gluten is an important source of nutritional protein, both in foods prepared directly from foods containing it, and as an additive to foods otherwise low in protein.
The seeds of most flowering plants have endosperms with stored protein to nourish embryonic plants during germination, but true gluten, with gliadin and glutenin, is limited to certain members of the grass family. The stored proteins of corn and rice are sometimes called glutens, but their proteins differ importantly from wheat gluten by lacking glutenin. The glutenin in wheat flour gives kneaded dough its elasticity, allowing leavening and contributing chewiness to baked products like bagels.
Although wheat supplies much of the world's dietary protein, a small percentage of the population, including those with coeliac disease, is gluten-intolerant and cannot consume it safety.
When cooked in broth, gluten absorbs some of the surrounding liquid (including the taste) and becomes firm to the bite, so is often used in vegetarian, vegan and Buddhist cuisines as a meat substitute. In China, as mi