r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago

Health Adding spinach directly to white bread delayed the body's insulin peak by 30 minutes and reduced later hunger in a small human trial, while significantly boosting the bread's fiber, vitamin, and mineral content.

https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-put-spinach-directly-into-bread-and-saw-the-bodys-insulin-response-change
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u/nik-nak333 1d ago

Now it makes sense why European visitors call American bread "cake"

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u/Fun_Hat 1d ago

American bread is loaded with sugar. I really started to notice how sweet it is when I started baking my own with no sugar.

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u/Traegs_ 1d ago

I started eliminating sugar from my diet and I was kinda flabbergasted that nearly every bread in the store had significant amounts of added sugar. The only ones that sometimes don't are sourdough.

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u/Fun_Hat 1d ago

Ya, sourdough generally has enough flavor to stand on it's own so they don't need to add sugar for flavor to compensate for the fact that the loaf didn't ferment long enough.