When a recipe calls for bran?!


Question: When a recipe calls for bran!?
im not someone who cooks very often and i dont always know what ingredients can be found where!.!.!. sometimes im not even sure what the ingredient is!. What exactly is bran!? when a recipe simply says add 2 tablespoons of bran, what is it!? Is it bran flakes like the cereal!? Is there a powder!? If its not cereal then what aisle in the grocery store will i find it in!?Www@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
Bran is the outer husk of the wheat berry!. It is a by-product of the production of white flour!. Whole wheat flour has the bran ground up in it, but white flour has the bran and the germ removed, so you only get the white stuff inside the wheat berry!. Bran comes in little tiny flakes, about like coarse sawdust!. In fact it has about the same nutritional value as sawdust!. It only adds texture and 'fiber', which is good for you!.

You might find bran in the bulk section, where it should be super cheap, like 10 cents a pound!. If not there, there might be a 'health foods' section with little 1-lb bags of flax seed, oat flour, stuff like that, and you might see a bag of it there, in a bag or a small box!.

I once spent some time looking for a recipe for bran muffins but all the recipes I found used bran cereal, which is a breakfast cereal made from bran, not the same thing at all!. A mouthful of bran cereal (like Kelloggs All-Bran) tastes good, chewy and tasty, but a mouthful of bran would be like a mouthful of pencil shavings!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

I use wheat or oat bran - I buy mine at the local natural health food store!.Www@FoodAQ@Com





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