conscious foods

What is in your bag of flour (part one)….

What is flour?  Flour is ground up grain, right? You may be shocked to learn that this is not necessarily fully so.  On a recent trip to Canada I took the time to read the ingredients on the back of a flour bag.  It is a national brand, an institution, in fact, called Robin Hood.

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Baking bread with millet

Millet is a grain that has been cultivated in East Asia for about 10 000 years.  It is widely grown all over the world for both human and animal consumption.  There are about ten different varieties of millet, some of which are also called sorghum.  Millet has no gluten and so is ideal for coeliacs

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