Probiotic Bread

A new probiotic bread that is being sold here in Cleveland.

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2011/01/a_new_kind_of_healthy_bread_ma.html

Doesn't say what probiotic.

I don't see sourdough bread as being a probiotic. It has bacteria to create the sour fermented ingredients. I don't see how they would survive the baking process.

I wouldn't eat the bread for probiotic purposes, but it's definitely a good source of prebiotics.

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raw or cooked?

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“Probiotic lactobacilli, and other species of the endogenous digestive microflora as well, are an important source of the enzyme phytase which catalyses the release of phosphate from phytate and hydrolyses the complexes formed by phytate and metal ions or other cations, rendering them more soluble ultimately improving and facilitating their intestinal absorption"

This part? I read it to mean that lactobacilli that is IN the microflora (in all our guts already) helps further break down the products formed making absorption better.

Unless I'm not reading it correctly or I'm not seeing the part you're meaning.

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The live culture is to create the bacteria for it to rise and be sour...I wouldn't see it as a viable source of probiotic. But, seems it's possible with the initial post..interesting.

Pretty soon they'll be making predigested food...

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