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“Food For Life Baking Company is a family owned and operated specialty bakery with a
passionate commitment to natural foods
Food For Life Baking Co. originated in Glendale, California in the back of a small neighborhood natural
foods store known as Foods For Life Natural Foods in 1964. Today, after more than three generations and
over 60 different bread products, Food For Life remains a family-owned enterprise and still maintains the
original baking techniques used to make truly authentic flavorful sprouted grain breads; plus the foresight
and intuition to pioneer other naturally crafted specialty baked goods such as world famous Ezekiel 4:9®
Bread. All Food For Life bakery products are made from the finest natural ingredients to provide optimum
nutrition and maximum taste.
Gary Torres, a Food For Life company principal, says the idea to develop sprouted grain bread and pasta
was inspired by the Scripture. The verse, included in the title of all their sprouted grain products, is Ezekiel
4:9:
"Take also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one
vessel, and make bread of it."
Sprouted grain bread is healthy, flavorful and nutrient rich.
Sprouting grains and seeds before baking produces living, nutrient-rich food. The process of germination
changes the composition of grain and seeds in numerous ways. Sprouting increases vitamin content.
Sprouting neutralizes phytic acid – a substance present in grains – that inhibits absorption of nutrients and
more important sprouting neutralizes or "predigests" if you will, grains through enzymatic activity. The
enzymes produced during our natural sprouting process "in effect" breaks down amino acid protein bonds to
promote digestibility of the entire grain.
Sprouted grain bread has numerous advantages over "enriched" wheat flour breads. These breads are
made from the endosperm of the wheat kernel (the inside portion), which contains primarily carbohydrates
and few vitamins and minerals. The milling of grain into white flour requires the removal of the bran and the
germ. This results in the loss of natural fiber, bran and 22 vitamins and minerals. To compensate, five
vitamins and minerals (thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, iron and folic acid) are added back in, "enriching" the
flour. Sometimes calcium is added back as well.
Food For Life Ezekiel 4:9® Sprouted Grain Bread is inspired by the Holy Scripture verse Ezekiel 4:9. Our
2,500 year old prodigy is made from six certified organic grains and legumes, sprouted in filtered water with
a touch of organic malted barley and sea salt. This bread is truly the staff of life.
As well, Ezekiel 4:9® Organic Sprouted Whole Grain Products have increased vitamin content generated
by the sprouting process and contain a superior quality protein that closely parallels the protein found in milk
and eggs, containing all 9 essential amino acids. In total, there are 18 amino acids present in this unique
bread.”