One of the biggest causes of chronic diseases and premature deaths in the United States is the everyday toxic diet that people consume. What we eat on a daily basis not only reflects our appearance but also our health on a long run.
One of the foods that are mostly consumed is white flour and unfortunately, this item includes the list.
The Federal District Court of Missouri in 1910 proclaimed that white flour inadequate as human food. According to H.W. Wiley, the first chief of the Food and Drug Administration the law was made simply to “through the political influence of the flour millers” and “no notice of violations has since been made by the FDA.”
Nowadays the white flour is made from wheat that is full of pesticides, insecticides, and fungicides. Did you know that up to 60 chemicals are approved in the process of making the bleached flour?
5 Secrets about White Flour That Will Shock You
1. Bleached Flour has no nutrients
Over 75 percent of minerals and vitamins are removed from the wheat seed`s brain and germ during the manufacturing process and over 97 percent of the dietary fibers are lost. Moreover, before this flour reaches the consumer’s table all the vitamin E is lost, 50 percent of calcium and 70 percent iron, B vitamins, and magnesium.
2. Added Potassium Bromate
After the process of removing all the nutrients, the flour is bleached, enhanced with chlorine dioxide and preserved. Then it goes in the process of whitening by using alum, ammonium carbonate and chalk so it would make it more appealing. Next, Sorbitan mono-saturated, an anti-salting agent, is added.
What is the ultimate part is that potassium bromate, a powerful oxidizer is infused in the flour. This chemical is cancerogenic, which is a claim made by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
3. White flour is a natural insecticide
Did you know that if an insect gets into the white flour it can die from eating it. However, this is not the case of all the insects but is an important fact that needs to be mentioned.
4. Contains L-cysteine
The non-essential amino acid known as L-cysteine is also added to the flour in order to accelerate the industrial processing. This ingredient is often found in fast food buns, pizza doughs, pastries and cookies.
The production of L-cysteine is made in a lab and most of the L-cysteine comes from China, a country with a poor history of food regulation.
5. White flour contains diabetes-causing contaminant alloxan
The substance that is infused in the white flour to make it look clean and fresh is alloxan. What is interesting that is scientifically proven that alloxan has a negative impact on the pancreas and it destroys the beta cells? This is explained in the Textbook of Natural Medicine which calls the chemical “a potent beta-cell toxin.”
Dr. Gary Null did multiple studies which show that the presence of alloxan destroys the vitamin E content.