Building a Gluten Free Diet: Gluten Free Flours
The demand for Gluten Free Products is moving at as rapid a rate as the ever increasing pace of our lifestyles. People are choosing, or even more so seeking, healthy natural alternatives. Gluten Free Flours, are a great place to start when building the foundations of Gluten free diet.
How Barley Flour Can Help You Lose Weight?
Because they are rich in carbohydrates, many people would think that whole grains such as barley flour should be avoided when you’re trying to lose weight. However this is just not the case. There are good carbs and bad carbs when it comes to weight loss and it seems that some of the bad carbs – for instance those found in pasta and most breads – have given the good carbs a bad name.
Read More...Discover The Health Benefits of Gluten-free Teff Seed
Teff is a nutrient rich seed that originates from Ethiopia dating back to ancient times. The seed is especially small, being similar in size to a poppy seed.
Read More...How to Cook with Barley Flour
Barley flour is a nutritious non-wheat flour that comes from the barley plant and is a popular baking ingredient. Despite containing some levels of gluten, which may mean it’s not an option for people with coeliac disease, the flour has been associated with various health benefits including helping to reduce blood pressure and keeping cholesterol levels under control. It’s also rich in fibre and carbohydrates.
Read More...Millet: Healthy, Flexible and Often Underappreciated
Despite its popularity among birds, there is a common misconception that millet has minimal nutritional value for humans. However the statistics indicate that this is simply not the case. In fact, many varieties of millet can be eaten as a tasty alternative to rice and even potato!
Read More...Malt Flours… Stone Ground… Authentically.
Malt Wheat Flour and Malt Barley Flour are starting to gain an increase of interest from the baking world and manufactures who are always looking for something new, innovative and to make their product stand out from the rest.
Read More...Tough on some and kind on others…2014 so far.
The New Year of 2014 was upon us with its ever increasing speed and now we are sprinting through the year towards the cooler autumn/winter months, where many are hoping to see increased rainfall for the parched areas of our cropping country.
Read More...Wrapping up 2013
2013 saw the start of a blog added to our website and we have been able to use this to post, what we hope, was some useful content for our readers.
Read More...Cooking and Baking with Sorghum Flour
Sorghum flour is one of the best gluten-free alternatives to regular flour. Sweet tasting and versatile in terms of its application, it offers people a healthy, gluten-free baked products alternative. Sorghum is used to produce dry baked products, and works well when combined with grains and other ingredients. Often it is simply seen to be a replacement for regular flour, but it has the added benefits of having a much smoother baked texture compared to rice flours and other gluten-free flour equivalents.
Read More...Gluten Intolerance and Diet
Intolerance to certain foods is obviously not ideal. If you consume excessive levels of gluten, it can cause diarrhoea, intestinal pain, bloating, joint pain and headaches. Nothing you want to have to put up with. Luckily, there are alternative, healthy foods that are gluten-free and can be safely consumed by all, as food manufacturers have looked to cater to sufferers of this affliction.
Food Choices for a Coeliac
If you happen to be included in the 1 in 500 people in Australia, according to the Centre for Digestive Diseases, that carries the burden of being Coeliac, what does it mean for you? Mirfak Pty Ltd is delving into the Gluten Free market and making an effort to create a difference and variety in options. We are not heading down the conventional gluten free ingredient path with products like potato and tapioca starch, but forging off in a slightly different direction
Hulled Millet - Get the Facts
Having been enjoyed by humans for thousands of years, millet is processed from small-seed grasses and can be enjoyed in many different ways.
Read More...Sorghum...The New Food Grain
Sorghum is the third most important cereal crop grown in the US and the fifth most important cereal crop in the world, according to the U.S. Grains Council. Originating from the tropical areas in Africa, the oldest cultivation records date back to B.C. 3000 in Egypt and then it came to the Americas via trade routes in the 1700's.
Read More...Wholegrain Products
Quite obviously, a person’s diet can have a great effect on their lifestyle and general wellbeing. It’s therefore very important to be weary of what you consume to ensure good health. At Mirfak, we take great pride in the healthy nature of all our products.
Read More...Buckwheat Flour, A Gluten-Free Alternative
The current diet and lifestyle of Australians seems to have created a situation in which more and more people are becoming gluten-intolerant. Buckwheat can be used to make a variety of foods and it stands as one of the go-to ingredients to make delicious gluten-free foods.
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