Eat healthily with grains

1. Fruits and plants: This includes all fruit-bearing trees as well as edible roots, stems, leaves, flowers, tubers, and seeds.
2. Animal products: Milk, honey and eggs provide valuable nutrients.
3. Meat: From Game, Domestic and Fish and Poultry

Cereals — a central component of nutrition
Among foodstuffs, cereals are considered one of the most important. It includes seeds of grasses such as wheat, rye, oats, barley, corn, rice, buckwheat, and millet. These have been the basis of our diet for thousands of years.

• Wheat It is preferably grown on good soils and processed into bread and pastries.
• rye On the other hand, it is less demanding in terms of soil, fertilization and climate. Rye bread, which is served in various variations such as crispbread and whole grain bread, is particularly popular in northern Europe.

The Classification of Foodstuffs
Nutrition science divides our food into two groups:

1. Carbohydrates, proteins and fats: They form the energy-rich basic components of our diet.
2. Vital substances: These include minerals, vitamins, ferments as well as flavorings and fragrances.

These substances are essential because they not only provide our body with energy but also support vital functions. It is only through the harmonious interplay of these groups that our lives remain healthy and balanced.

Grains play a central role in human nutrition. It provides important nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals and fiber. These substances are unevenly distributed in cereal grains: Starch is mainly found in the flour body, while fats and vitamins are concentrated in the seedling. Most fiber and important minerals are found in the outer outer layers of the grain.

Wheat in particular, which consists of around two thirds of carbohydrates, i.e. contains protein, fat and numerous minerals and vitamins. Processing the grain into whole grains ensures that all ingredients are used, which is important for health and good digestion.

Historically speaking, grains were used as a staple food by humans from an early age. Even today, it still plays an important role in our daily diet, e.g. as granola

Our morning fitmaker breakfast buffet includes healthy homemade Bircher cereal. Freshly squeezed, hearty oats, aromatic apples, juicy oranges and fresh seasonal fruit are just as much a part of this as other valuable ingredients from certified organic farming such as yogurt and linseeds. Out of consideration for people with allergies, we do not add nuts to muesli. And if you like, you can add fresh grain porridge, almonds, nuts, sesame, sunflower seeds or dried fruits such as dates, prunes or figs, individually to make your own favorite breakfast.

A hearty cereal variant can be prepared individually with scrapped spelt or oats with fresh sprouts, herbs and vegetables (e.g. tomatoes, carrots,...), a little cream and vegetable broth. A teaspoon of valuable linseed oil (an ideal source of omega-3 fatty acids) can be added at any time.

In addition to valuable calcium, vitamins and minerals, muesli also provides lots of healthy fiber. The importance of fiber has been extensively researched scientifically and its positive influence on various diseases of civilization such as constipation, colorectal cancer, diabetes and heart disease has been proven in numerous studies. They act both on fat metabolism and on carbohydrate metabolism. The German Nutrition Society recommends a daily intake of at least 30 g of fiber per day to avoid the occurrence of these diseases, but the average German citizen is significantly lower.

Fibers are the components of food that pass through the small intestine virtually undigested and are therefore not directly available as an energy source. They have a high water-binding capacity and can absorb organic substances such as bile acids, promote digestion and prevent constipation.

Some of the most important sources of fiber, grains and fruit, can be found in freshly prepared, versatile muesli.

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