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The Sourdough School

DIVERSITY BREAD® || PERSONALISED BREAD || BAKING AS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE

Bake With The Hands Of An Artisan And The Mind Of A Clinician

Set within the walled gardens of Dr Vanessa Kimbell’s beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, The Sourdough School is home to the Proven Bread Programme, teaching the art and science of nutrition, the gut microbiome and fermentation in bread. We train bakers to produce Diversity Bread® and healthcare professionals to personalise bread through Baking as Lifestyle Medicine. Arrange a conversation today.

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  • Workshops
    • Book a Call
    • 2 Day Workshops
    • 3 days Personalised Bread Workshops
    • Tuscan Retreat
    • 12 Week Post Course Support
    • Request a Callback
  • About
    • About The Sourdough School
    • Priority Access: Join the Waiting List
    • Contact Us & FAQ
    • Reviews
    • General FAQ’s about The School
    • Diversity Bread™
    • Where to stay & more
    • Training Bakers & Healthcare Professionals
    • Educational Awards Programme
    • The Team
    • A Social Enterprise
    • Contributors & Guest Tutors
    • What Our Students Say
  • Learn
    • The Diploma – January 2027
    • Request a callback
    • Graduation Recipe Collection
  • What is Proven?
    • Baking as Lifestyle Medicine (BALM)
    • Bread as Preventative Health
    • BALM & Bread in The Blue Zone
    • Proven Bread Documentary
    • Prove it – The Case Studies
    • Proven: Bread Podcast
    • Proven
    • Login
  • Personalised Bread
    • Personalising Bread Using Nutrigenetics
    • Personalisation
    • Personalising Bread

Fibre

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Modification of the colonic microbiota

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Cherries and health: a review

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Berries: emerging impact on cardiovascular health

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Microbial fermentation of flaxseed fibers modulates the transcriptome of GPR41-expressing enteroendocrine cells and protects mice against diet-induced obesity

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Effects of Commercial Apple Varieties on Human Gut Microbiota Composition and Metabolic Output Using an In Vitro Colonic Model

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Balancing Herbal Medicine and Functional Food for Prevention and Treatment of Cardiometabolic Diseases through Modulating Gut Microbiota

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Randomised clinical trial: low-FODMAP rye bread vs. regular rye bread to relieve the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome

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Fermentation in the human large intestine and the available substrates

Dietary fiber and prebiotics and the gastrointestinal microbiota

EINKORN

Nutritional properties of einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum L.)

wheat bran health benefits

Wheat bran: its composition and benefits to health, a European perspective

beta glucan and diabetes

Effects of breakfast cereals containing various amounts of beta-glucan fibers on plasma glucose and insulin responses in NIDDM subjects

health benefits of fermented beverages

Fermented beverages with health-promoting potential: Past and future perspectives

Spelt nutrition

Characteristics of spelt wheat products and nutritional value of spelt wheat-based bread

wheat and bacterial strains

Prebiotic effect of soluble fibres from modern and old durum-type wheat varieties on Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium strains

sourdough fermentation

Sourdough Bread

phytohemicals in wholegrains

Whole grain phytochemicals and health

The gut micro biome

A dynamic partnership : Celebrating our gut flora

Wheat and bread making process

Wheat flour constituents: how they impact bread quality, and how to impact their functionality

Resistant starch and sourdough

Resistant starch formation in bread as influenced by choice of ingredients and baking conditions

Dietary fibre and its importance

Inulin and Oligofructose as Dietary Fibre: A review of the evidence

Dietary fibre and polyphenols in cereal grains

Cereal dietary fibre: a natural functional ingredient to deliver phenolic compounds into the gut

Wheat and inflammation

Whole grain wheat consumption reduces inflammation in a randomised controlled trial on overweight and obese subjects with unhealthy dietary and lifestyle behaviours: role of polyphenols bound to cereal dietary fibre

Organic flour and sourdough

How organic farming of wheat may affect the sourdough and the nutritional and technological features of leavened goods

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