Purple Prairie Barley
- Sep 13, 2024
- 3 min read
Purple Prairie Barley has some amazing health benefits, adds a better texture and flavor to our bread loaves and makes them easier to digest! This amazing super food can also we served alone as a side dish, can be added to your favorite soup or salad or used to make cereal! Let’s dive into this super food and see what it has to offer us!
The Many Health Benefits of Purple Prairie Barley:
Purple Barley is very high in fiber and one of the best sources of fiber among the whole grains. Fiber can help with digestion, weight loss and controlling glycemic levels.
Purple barley contains anthocyanins, an antioxidant that is present in all purple foods that can help fight disease. Anthocyanins are found in the dark-purple seed coat of purple barley. Timeless Seeds tested their Prairie Purple Barley and it has over 26% higher ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity) than blueberries!!! Wow!
Purple Barley is high in beta glucans and can help lower cholesterol which can help us fight and prevent heart disease!
Purple Barley is high in vitamins and minerals like Potassium, Calcium and Iron and it contains more Zinc than lentils and more B vitamins than other grains!
The high fiber content of barley may help prevent gallstones.
Purple barley may help with gut disorders. The fiber in barley helps feed gut cells and promote a healthy balance of gut bacteria. This may help with symptoms of gut disorders like Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome.
This Prairie Purple Barley has been tested at 15% protein so it’s a significant source for healthy protein!
What does Purple Barley do to our bread loaves when we add it?
Purple Barley can be added to our bread loaves to help the crumb be less crumbly and it gives our bread a chewy soft texture that 100% wheat berry breads can’t always do!
Purple barley gives your bread a better flavor when added that many people notice and enjoy!
Purple Barley gives your bread a darker crust that makes it look like something that came from an artisan bakery!
To try Barley in your favorite wheat berry bread recipes you can substitute 10% of the flour with barley flour to your recipe! You will be happily suprised!
Here is a great recipe for a sourdough wheat berry loaf made with Barley:
What else can you do with Purple Barley?
You can add it to your favorite salads as a topping! Just boil it and cook it like rice with some seasonings and you have a delicious, nutrient rich, chewy topping for your salads! Here is a great recipe for a salad made with Barley!
You can add it to your favorite soups! Add it to the stock and let it simmer until it starts to get tender! Then add your seasonings, other veggies and grains and cook to desired consistency! Easy! Here is a great soup recipe made using barley!!
Finally, you can substitute 50% of your flour with Purple Barley Flour in your pancake, cookies, muffin, and waffle recipes for delicious, nutrient packed goodies for your whole family to enjoy and benefit from!
We are currently offering Purple Prairie Barley on our current “Rice, Bean and Barley Bulk Order” and you can add it to your existing order or start a new order now at our shop page here:
For more info on how this bulk order works follow this link here:
The deadline for ordering this Purple Prairie Barley at this bulk price is Friday, September 20th at 12 Noon!🕛
We hope this helps you! Yah Bless and Shalom!❤️
Owner, Sherrie Barbee
Yah’s Manna Grain Co.
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