The Sourdough School

BALM – Proven as one of the healthiest approaches to bread in the world.

Based in the walled gardens of Dr. Vanessa Kimbell's beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, UK, we tutor individuals and train bakers and healthcare professionals in Baking as Lifestyle Medicine (BALM). Personalising bread to your lifestyle, gut microbiome, and unique genetics for optimal health—tailoring fermentation, fibre, and diversity so that your daily bread becomes the foundation of your health.

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Amylopectin | Research Level

A resistant starch.

At the Sourdough Club we learn all about Amylopectin, a resistant starch serving as a valuable power source for the plant, and therefore for humans too. 

This starch molecule found in our wholegrain bakes is not fully digested in our upper intestinal tract, so it is available to be fed on by our beneficial. probiotic gut bacteria in the colon. 

You will learn how this starch, found in the grain, provides nourishment to our gut bacteria and therefore enhances prevention and control of chronic diseases such as colon cancer, diabetes and obesity.

It is about understanding.

The way we approach our sourdough bread and baked goods here at the Sourdough Club goes beyond creating recipes that are just delicious: we are creating formulas that truly nourish. We do this through our use of wholegrain flour and by making our own blends. This is a unique approach, but what makes it exciting is actually understanding, as bakers, the different elements contained within the bread we are baking, and how each of them works within the body.  

By subscribing to our Sourdough Club you will learn and understand more about Amylopectin and my recipes to help you work towards the health benefits that a wholegrain fermented sourdough bake can provide. 

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All reasonable care is taken when advising about health aspects of bread, but the information that we share is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.

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