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

Discover how Baking as Lifestyle Medicine can transform your gut and mental health—through bread. Based in the walled gardens of Dr. Vanessa Kimbell’s beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, UK, we teach individuals, bakers, and healthcare professionals to bake Proven Bread. Developed by Dr. Kimbell—widely recognised as a global authority on bread and health—this functional nutrition approach uses nutrigenetics to personalise each loaf for optimal health.

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Red Onion & Garlic Relish

Learning Objective

You will find out how to make a red onion and garlic relish.

Learning Outcome

You will be able to make a relish and understand how red onions and garlic can benefit gut health.

As well as being a delicious Red Onion & Garlic Relish, one of the key things about eating onions and garlic is that they have a really positive effect on the gut microbiome, nurturing your gut microbes because onions contain inulin which is a sweet, naturally occurring prebiotic called fructooligosaccharides (FOS)...

I love the word relish… it’s exactly what people do when they eat this Red Onion & Garlic Relish, they relish it...

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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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