Re: Sprouted whole grains going rancid?

[Guest guest]

no I do not think so. The sprouted flour I buy from

Creating Heaven is only good for 6 months frozen.

Allyn

On Jan 30, 2008, at 9:44 PM, " ccbmamma " <caroleebol@...>

wrote:

> Does anyone know if you sprout whole grains, then dehydrate them,

> whether they'll keep as long as if you didn't sprout them? I've read

> that whole grains will keep for years without becoming rancid.

> Wondering if the same applies to whole grains that have been sprouted

> then dehydrated.

>

> Thanks!

> Carolee

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[Guest guest]

We have been considering this as well. As soon as you mill grain

(sprouted or otherwise) it begins to oxidize. One of the reasons our

grocery buying club supplier wont carry Creating Heaven flour is

because Mrs Summers says the shelf life is only 3 months and they want

to be able to keep it on the shelf longer. She can hardly keep up with

the demand for her sprouted flour. Knowing how it begins to oxidize on

milling, I would submit that unless its kept frzen 3 months would be

too long a shelf life.

Sprouting grain and then drying it would seem to me a perfect

intermediary solution. Absolutely dry storage would be a MUST to avoid

molds.

Creating Heaven has a wonderful pictoral of the process she goes

through to clean, sprout & mill the flour. Go to

http://www.creatingheaven.net/eeproducts/eesfc/news/index.html and

scroll all the way to the last set of photos. We have sprouted wheat

many times to make wheat grass. Never considered just cutting the grow

time to make a mill-able grain product until recently.

[Guest guest]

After-thought.........

The temp you dehydrate it at would be essential too. At 111 degrees

your cooking things, as I understand it. Once " cooked " I would suspect

it just might go rancid rather rapidly! The standard dehydrators (from

Walmart) have bad reps for cooking at too high of temps. The Excalibur

is the only one I have ever seen that has a regulated safe thermostat.

We have a PANtrie Solar Dehydrator that would work too. Im not sure

if you can even buy those anymore though. Direct sunlight is generally

too hot. You need slightly warm (less than 110), shelter from dust and

bugs and good air circulation.