Compare that to even whole milled grains. Ground flour particles can be a hundred times smaller—even smaller than the cells themselves—so nearly every one may be ruptured open, spilling their contents early and leaving our gut flora in the lurch.7548 That’s why we should try to de-flour our diets. Whole grains are good, but intact whole grains (groats) are better. It’s the same reason why eating nuts can alter our microbiome for the better, boosting the growth of good bugs that produce short-chain fatty acids, but there appears to be no prebiotic influence when we eat the same amount of nut
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