My Cottage Butcher has put in an oven and has started making fresh bread daily.
My favorite so far is the Sour Dough. Which is a very timely admission since new research from the University of Guelph tells us that Sour Dough may be the best choice of bread when it comes to your health.
In yet another example of how we can pretty much get research to tell us whatever we want it to, research from Guelph has found that Sour Dough is better than white bread which is better than whole wheat and whole wheat with added barley.
Yep that’s right – whole wheat performed the worst…go figure.
So here is my take – Food is food, let’s stop obsessing over it. In an insane attempt to label some foods healthy and some food not-healthy we continually come to quick scientific conclusions that get blown out of proportion by the media, become “common knowledge” and then eventually gets disproved.
The result of this is consistently frustration and confusion over what and how we should eat, and an ever increasing trend towards obsessive compulsive eating.
Eat the foods you enjoy, just don’t eat too much, and try to eat with as much variety as possible..and try the sour dough, its delicious.
BP
For more information (but not the actual study) follow this link ==> http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2008/07/sourdough_bread.html
