Spelled bread: benefits, nutritional values, recipe



Curated by Maria Rita Insolera, Naturopath

Spelled bread is a food rich in proteins and vitamin B with a satiating effect and a slightly laxative useful to counteract free radicals. Let's find out better.

Properties and benefits of spelled bread

Spelled bread is rich in B vitamins and protein. spelled bread has an amino acid lacking in other types of cereals, methionine.

This amino acid is involved in the synthesis of some phospholipids such as carnitine and cysteine. Spelled bread is indicated for those with digestive difficulties but not for celiacs as it has gluten. In it are present important amounts of proteins and vitamins of the group B.

Spelled-based products are particularly suitable for those with digestive disorders and are intolerant to durum wheat derivatives.

Due to its high fiber content and its ability to absorb water, spelled bread is indicated for slimming diets as it has a high satiating and laxative action.

Spelled bread has a high content of selenium (antioxidant) which makes it a valid food to fight free radicals . Potassium and phosphorus are also present.

Calories and nutritional values

Spelled bread contains about 211 kcal per 100 g of product . It is particularly rich in proteins (15.1 g / 100 grams of flour) and in group B vitamins . Spelled bread contains an essential amino acid that is missing or lacking in many other cereals: methionine.

Spelled bread production

Spelled bread is produced from spelled flour . Spelled, one of the oldest cereals known in history, is a resistant wheat from the Gramineae family that grows on poor soils, even with a harsh climate, unlike other more delicate cereals.

Spelled flour is the product obtained by grinding the caryopsis of Triticum spelta (or farro maggiore), Triticum dicoccum (properly called spelled, or medium spelled) or Triticum monococcum (or small spelled).

Most spelled flours are made from spelled greater, less expensive and particularly versatile. Spelled, being precisely so resistant, does not require weeding or fertilization based on non-natural products, it is therefore a cereal generally "cleaned" of chemical substances.

Spelled bread recipe

Ingredients

  • 300 g of spelled flour;
  • 100 g of whole wheat flour;
  • 2 g of brewer's yeast;
  • 250 ml of warm water;
  • 3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil;
  • 1 tablespoon of fine salt.

Method

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Dissolve the yeast in warm water. Mix the two flours also combining the salt. Add the water little by little, adding the oil. Mix everything until you get a soft and elastic dough.

Leave the loaf thus obtained to rest for about half an hour covered with a cloth. After the rising time, give the dough the shape of a round loaf that will rise for another hour.

Properties and use of spelled flour

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