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- Michelle Schoffro Cook
- June 7, 2012
- 5:11 pm
- 74 comments
Whether you’re sensitive to gluten or just wanting to eat less of it, here are 6 gluten-free grains that offer many health benefits:
Brown Rice
Unlike white rice, brown rice is high in fiber and vitamin E. Vitamin E is essential for healthy skin, immune function, and many other critical functions in your body. During the processing of brown rice into white, these nutrients are largely lost. Brown rice also contains high amounts of the minerals manganese, magnesium, and selenium. It also contains tryptophan, which helps with sleep. Selenium helps ward off cancer. Brown rice can easily replace white rice in almost any recipe: soups, stews, stir-fries, and even to make a dairy-free milk substitute.
Buckwheat
The name is a bit misleading. Buckwheat is not related to wheat and is both wheat- and gluten-free. It’s not even technically a grain but a seed that’s a relative of rhubarb. It is high in fiber, manganese, magnesium, tryptophan, and copper. Research shows that the regular consumption of buckwheat reduces the incidence of high blood pressure or high cholesterol. The combination of vitamin C and the flavonoid rutin give buckwheat its ability to prevent blood clumping and to keep blood moving smoothly through blood vessels. Canadian research in the Journal of Agriculture & Food Chemistry found that buckwheat may be helpful in the management of diabetes.
Millet
Similar in texture to couscous, millet is high in manganese, phosphorus, tryptophan, and magnesium. Phosphorus is a key component of ATP—your body’s energy currency. ATP helps ensure that your body has the energy it needs for every function. Tryptophan is the amino acid that helps your body make melatonin which in turn helps you sleep like a baby at night. Magnesium has been shown in studies to reduce the severity of headaches and asthma. And, according to new research published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, foods high in insoluble fiber like millet can help reduce the incidence of gallstones.
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Michelle Schoffro Cook
Michelle Schoffro Cook, MSc, RNCP, ROHP, DNM, PhD is an international best-selling and 14-time book author and doctor of traditional natural medicine, whose works include: 60 Seconds to Slim, Healing Recipes, The Vitality Diet, Allergy-Proof, Arthritis-Proof, Total Body Detox, The Life Force Diet, The Ultimate pH Solution, The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan, and The Phytozyme Cure. Check out her natural health resources and subscribe to her free e-magazine World's Healthiest News at WorldsHealthiestDiet.com to receive monthly health news, tips, recipes and more. Follow her on Twitter @mschoffrocook and Facebook.
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Interesting, have been following the gluten debate lately as I love whole grains and some are some schools of thought stating that wheat is not good for you. Am not sure if this is really true unless one is gluten intolerant.
Some even go so far as to say that wheat can cause difficulties with one's mental health but the jury is still out on that one! Love my whole grain breads for one thing! However, also love the alternative to wheat as they are very tasty!
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Irish cut oats are really good. But you can at least get old fashioned or steel cut oats at a relatively good price. Some of the other stuff is expensive.
Brown rice is relatively inexpensive, if you can afford to buy bulk.
Thanks but they are are not easily available.
These grains can be cross-contaminated with gluten grains: Buckwheat & Millet (due to use as a rotation crop) and Quinoa (because of it's popularity SA wheat fields are being converted to quinoa).
If you buy in bulk, cross-contact can occur, not only because of cross-contamination in the bulk bins, but due to shared transport and storage. Be vigilant and inspect before consuming to maintain a gluten-free life.
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