Can You Make White Bread Healthy? Yes! Just Follow This Healthy Hack

Enjoy this all-time favorite again.

Slices of toasted white bread
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With the changing times, more and more people are becoming health conscious and avoiding foods that they think are unhealthy for them. One of such foods is the staple found in almost every home, white bread. Health enthusiasts avoid it because it has a high glycemic index which means that once you have it, it would lead to a sudden increase in blood sugar and then an energy slump.

 

If you are aware of this, and you have eliminated white bread from the diet but you miss it then here is a simple and healthy hack. Researchers have proven that toasted bap, bloomer or bagel can act as a pre-workout option if you just remember to freeze it beforehand. Freezing will cut the initial sugar spike in half and give your muscles the energy needed to do well in a morning cardio session.

 

The healthy hack of freezing the bread will make it hard for the enzymes in your gut to transform starch into sugar and hence the release of energy will be slower and more sustained. This is amazing if you want to avoid a mid-morning burnout at the desk.

 

To ensure that the white bread does more good than harm while following this healthy hack, avoid chemically treated bread and stick to white sourdough and layer it liberally with healthy foods like almond butter and banana. Also, make sure that you are drinking water regularly to aid the digestion process.

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Sounds good so far? Here’s another reason to reach out for the white bread. Recent research released by the academic journal Cell Metabolism has discovered that people have different reactions with regard to blood sugar levels after having white bread. Yes, you read it right, researchers have found that whether the white bread is bad for you or not depends on the person.

 

Some people respond well to wheat bread while others respond well to white bread because the procedure by which food is processed by the body is different in every person. So, you don’t have to feel guilty if you consume white bread once in a while, even if you are following a strict diet plan like the keto diet as there is a probability that the bread won’t do you any harm.