"Conventional wheat and other commonly consumed grains receive post-harvest pesticide treatment to prevent their infestation during storage. Very little degradation occurs during storage, and milling does not significantly reduce the bulk of the chemicals, but in fact results in the distribution of their residues in various processed products. This has raised particular concern in regard to the contamination of baby food products containing cereal ingredients, especially since wheat bound pesticides such as pirimiphos-methyl have been found to have high bioavailability in animals. The natural health movement has long advocated for reducing the well-known antigenicity and allergenicity of cereal grains through sprouting, fermentation and culturing (e.g. the sourdough process in bread making), but this new finding sheds light on another way in which these traditional methods may reduce the bodily burden of not just natural (e.g. gluten, lectins) but manmade toxins, as well."
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:12:34 +0000
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