If you have a grain mill at home, you can always grind your flour fresh. This not only has more nutrients than the purchased from the supermarket – it also tastes better! So why forgo freshness? If you grind your own flour at home, you can also determine how fine your flour will be. And you can always just grind exactly as much as you need. Unlike milled grain, whole grain does not lose any nutrients and can be stored for a long time. 

It doesn’t always have to be wheat! How about einkorn, emmer or spelt? And not only interesting for people with a gluten intolerance: Fresh flour from legumes or from pseudo-grains such as quinoa and amaranth. 

Have you ever baked bread, rolls, waffles or cakes at home with freshly ground flour? The difference in taste will delight you! Fresh tastes better! Grain simply tastes best when you grind it fresh just before processing. 

If you grind your own grain, you get the full spectrum of nutrients. It is precisely in the husk of grains such as wheat or spelt that we find a large proportion of the nutrients – why should we do without them? The whole grain offers plenty of vitamins, important trace elements and minerals such as iron, magnesium and calcium, as well as valuable unsaturated fatty acids and proteins. But beware: milled grain loses important nutrients after just a few hours, and whole grain flour quickly goes rancid as a result. 

Grinding the whole grain of a cereal fresh means the maximum „yield“ of nutrients. If, on the other hand, you buy extracted flour from the supermarket, you are buying a product that is significantly less healthy. Whole grain flour contains about 1800 mg of minerals per 100 grams of flour, while an extract flour type 405 contains only 405 mg of minerals per 100 grams of flour.  

Fresh wholemeal flour also satiates longer and performs an important function for regulated digestion. The dietary fiber prevents constipation and reduces the risk of diseases of the large intestine. Whole grains are one of the most important sources of dietary fiber in our domestic diet.