TITLE EDIT: Why are there Carbs… EDIT TO COMPLY WITH THE TRIGGERED: I should not have said unhealthy carbs. What I should have said was carbs that have been proven to contribute to a significant percentage of the population being obese.
So I realize that nearly 100% of the carbohydrates in chia seeds and flax seeds are all fiber that don’t count towards carbs in a sense that you gain weight from them, but if when we’re eating bread we’re eating basically ground up wheat seeds, why are the carbs from wheat seeds also not mostly good fiber and worse than the carbs from chia and flax seeds?
Also, side question, if you can make bread from ground up wheat flour, could you also make a type of bread from ground up chia and flaxseed flour that you could eat without having to worry about consuming unhealthy carbs?
EDIT: For those triggered by the unhealthy carbs comment. I will amend my statement to acknowledge that carbs are not inherently bad, however it is very well documented that carbs coming from wheat / grain bread GENERALLY (not speaking in absolutes) come with far less nutrition than from fruits and dairy. And I would still appreciate any actually helpful responses to the main point in my question.
Part 2- you can, it’s just going to taste like shit. It’s a weird model, with keto bread, tortillas etc. fiber amounts cancel carb amounts, which makes zero sense to me. Healthy carbs are not the devil. Are you trying to lean out or why no carbs?
No such thing as unhealthy carbs, just the wrong type to eat at the wrong time.
GI index of wheat bread is around 70, so it’s high, usually not good to eat a lot of these. A lower GI carb is better, but not so low that it doesn’t give you energy. (Fiber)
For your second question, yes you can. But how many chia and flax plant do you need to grow to make such bread? It’s not economically viable. There’s psyllium husk bread.
Wheat has proteins in it (primarily gluten) that make better bread than other flours.
Wheat carbs don’t lead to obesity or health problems; excess consumption of refined wheat leads to those things. If you chose to, you could eat enough apples to cause those issues too.
Wheat isn’t more or less nutritious that fruit or chia or flax; it’s just different. There are nutrients in all of them that aren’t in the others, and all can be consumed as part of a healthy diet.
Finally, the people who are telling you that wheat isn’t inherently less nutritious than those other foods aren’t “triggered.” They’re correcting wrong information.
You need to understand that 99% of carbs that are not unprocessed are healthy.Carbs are the main micronutrient of most plants, which are the healthiest food you could eat.If you follow a keto diet i advise you to probably switch to a whole plant based diet, there are a lot of side effects to keto and high fat especially if it’s from animal products, of which none are needed to be healthy it’s actually healthier without them.If you want concrete evidence plant based diets (whole/unprocessed) are the healthiest look at the longest living group of people, for example to Okinawans, even if they didn’t have the most advanced health care, their 99% plants intake with less than 1 fish and almost no meat have the longest lifespan. Keto didn’t revolution anything, carbs can be bad depending on thier source but they are 100% needed for a long life
Aha! I like how your mind works.
Good questions.
Yes just like all sugars are not the same, all carbs are not the same.
It’s the kind of wheat that matters. Whole wheat is good, refined wheat is not. But that is also another layer to this. Sometimes whole wheat is Not what it seems like. When the wheat seed is separated sometimes they just put them back together - the different parts - and call it whole wheat. You want whole wheat meaning the whole seed has been ground up together not ground up separately and then put back together by a formula.
How you eat the food also matters. If you sit and chew hold wheat berries your body is going to take time to digest it. So that is better for you than eating whole wheat flour that just runs through your system you can digest it faster though not quite as fast as refined bleached flour.
Also read up on soluble and insoluble fiber.
Chia has a huge amount of fiber like blackberries n pomegranate seeds. Very few foods have that much fiber.
However flour is evil - no matter what flour it is. Why? Because flour does not take a long time to digest. Now obviously if you have no health issues then you eat flour but in limited quantities. As a diabetic you want to eat even less quantities. So u balance your diet accordingly. So whole chia is healthier than Chia flouer because whole chia seeds takes longer time to travel through your digestive system than Chia flour.
All oats are not the same. Steel cut oats are the healthiest, but rolled quick oats least healthiest.
The magic food today is not carbs because we are not as physical as we used to be. Especially in the US. So fiber is even more important for us because of our sedentary life.
In part, it has to do with how accessible the sugars (carbs) are for your body. It’s like drinking fruit juice vs. eating a piece of fruit. The ease of access for your body spikes your insulin which in turn signals your body to store energy.
It’s best to keep it at or below 5g of sugar per sitting. Your liver can only handle 23-30g of sugar in a day (that’s if it’s empty). Unfortunately, a lot of stuff at the grocery store has 25g+ of simple sugars per serving.
Flax and chia are oilseeds - they contains quite a bit of oil. It’s really hard to make flour out of oilseed with so much oil content (it’s not a whole grain, like wheat).
So it has a much smaller ratio of endosperm to germ. And it’s the endosperm that forms the bulk of your flour (wholewheat or otherwise).
https://wholegrainscouncil.org/definition-whole-grain
Even if you somehow successfully make flax meal and not butter while grinding it, it would go rancid much sooner. So you’d need to make/ buy it in smaller batches.