What is Fresh Milled Flour?
What is Fresh Milled Flour? Our fresh milled flour is 100% whole grain flour produced by us grinding organic grain/wheat berries and not sifting out any parts of the grains. Our fresh milled flour is milled right before use.
Why did you start milling your own flour? Our family was having a lot of issues with "gluten". For years we thought we had a gluten allergy or sensitivity. "Gluten" (even trace amounts) was causing sinus headaches, arthritis, fatigue, diarrhea, brain-fog, attention/focusing issues and even dementia-like symptoms.
While on vacation out of the USA we said, "screw it, we are on an all-inclusive vacation and going to eat everything!". We quickly realized, we were not reacting to the food like we do back at home.
After doing a deep dive into the differences, we had a strong suspicion it had to do with much of our food being non-organic, over processed, and lots of artificial ingredients in our foods.
We then bought a stone grain mill and organic wheat berries. Very quickly, we found out we were NOT allergic to gluten!! We now enjoy food again and do not have the reactions to gluten that we used to.
Why is Fresh Milled Flour more beneficial than commercially made flour?
Our fresh milled flour is not sifted, so it retains all three parts of the grain: the nutrient-rich germ, fiber-filled bran, and starchy endosperm. This nutrient rich combination digests slower in your body, which provides your body with a more sustained energy and less risk of glucose spikes.
Commercially made flour is only the starchy endosperm and then nutrients are artificially added back in to "enrich" the flour. Due to the overprocessing, removal of most of its nutrients and having additives put into the commercial flour; commercial flour has a much longer shelf life, but can cause rapid glucose spikes, inflammation and other adverse health effects.
Source: Harvard