Choose your bread wisely. here’s why Health benefits of this food items depends from person to person
The health benefits of whole wheat bread and processed white bread may vary from one person to another, a new study suggests. The findings could lead to a more rational approach for telling people which foods are a better fit for them, based on their microbiomes or gut bacteria, researchers said.
Researchers from Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel carried out a comprehensive, randomised trial in 20 healthy subjects comparing differences in how white bread and artisanal whole wheat sourdough affect the body.
The team then devised an algorithm to help predict how individuals may respond to the bread in their diets. These included wakeup glucose levels; levels of the essential minerals calcium, iron, and magnesium; fat and cholesterol levels; kidney and liver enzymes; and several markers for inflammation and tissue damage.
“The initial finding, and this was very much contrary to our expectation, was that there were no clinically significant differences between the effects of these two types of bread on any of the parameters that we measured,” said Eran Segal, a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute.
About half the people had a better response to the processed, white flour bread, and the other half had a better response to the wholewheat sourdough.