The Sourdough School

BREAD COURSES || NUTRITION TRAINING || DIGESTION ANALYSIS || PERSONALISED BREAD

Learn to bake, eat, and share the healthiest bread in the world. Discover how to bake as Lifestyle Medicine from the walled gardens of Dr Vanessa Kimbell’s beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire in the UK, where we train healthcare professionals, teach bakers, and support individuals to bake personalised bread using nutrigenetics and gut health assessments.

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Botanical Blend Number 5: Golden Blend – Carotenoids

Diversity Score: 23

Carotenoids are the richly coloured red, orange and yellow plant pigments found in many fruits and vegetables. They are powerful antioxidants known for their many protective health benefits. This Golden Blend contains...

To continue reading about this botanical blend and learn how to make and incorporate it into your sourdough bakes, subscribe now for unlimited access and join the Club.  

Learn to make Sourdough – order a free starter to get you going.  Start your journey today and find out more about how sourdough is the healthiest bread, and how apply our 7 core principles to your baking to help your digestion and benefit your overall health and wellbeing. 

There is a world of information and core knowledge inside the Club, and you will be supported by a whole community of bakers as you learn.

The Club is alive with baking and conversations: discover the latest research, tips, enjoy regular inspiring recipes and brilliant webinars, explore our interactive forum, join our book club, and get access to member discounts.  You will also get updates with news to be in the know before anyone else about the latest books by Vanessa Kimbell and the courses on offer at the Sourdough School.

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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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