The skin left after wheat is processed into flour is called bran.
The outermost skin of wheat. After the wheat is processed by a flour mill, it becomes flour and bran. Bran is the outer skin of wheat. Most of it is used as feed, such as feeding pigs. But it can also be mixed with high-gluten white flour to make high-fiber bran bread. ?
Efficacy:
1. Effectively improve constipation. Wheat bran is rich in dietary fiber, an essential nutrient for the human body. Appropriate consumption can increase the fiber content in food, improve constipation, and promote the excretion of fat and nitrogen, which is of great significance in the prevention and treatment of common clinical fiber deficiency diseases;
2. Reduce the amount of fiber in the body cholesterol. Due to the intake of high-fiber ingredients, the excretion of steroids in the feces can be reduced, and the main demarcation metabolic process of cholesterol in the human body is through the excretion of feces, so serum cholesterol can be reduced and the formation of atherosclerosis can be slowed down;
3. It has the effect of moisturizing the lungs and black hair.
4. It can help prevent colon and rectal cancer;
5. It can reduce the content of estrogen in the blood and prevent breast cancer;
6 , effectively promote physical development and growth. The B vitamins contained in wheat bran play many functions in the body and are also indispensable nutrients for normal food metabolism. Wheat bran has a high amino acid content and is rich in trace elements. These play an important role in children's growth and development.