{"id":3384,"date":"2015-11-13T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ulprospector.com\/knowledge\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2018-04-23T15:06:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:06:31","slug":"fbn-news-brief-steaming-bread-lowers-glycemic-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/3384\/fbn-news-brief-steaming-bread-lowers-glycemic-index\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: Steaming Bread Lowers Glycemic Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3385\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 400px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/media\/2015\/11\/SteamedBread02.jpg\" alt=\"Steamed bread is a staple of Asian cuisine.\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Steamed bread is a staple of Asian cuisine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Steamed bread, made by preparing a simple dough and cooking it over water\u00a0in a wok or steamer, is a staple of Asian cuisine. Recent research suggests that cooking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulprospector.com\/en\/na\/Food\/search?k=bread&amp;st=31\">bread <\/a>with steam actually lowers its glycemic index, making it a healthier choice for consumers struggling with diabetes and other illnesses.<\/p>\n<h3>News Drill Down<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>According to a recent article from <em>What&#8217;s New in Food Technology &amp; Manufacturing<\/em>, a team of scientists from Singapore&#8217;s A*STAR Institute for Clinical Sciences compared bread prepared using both Asian and Western techniques. The article explains &#8220;both lab analysis and consumer blood tests revealed that the highest GI was found in bread made with Asian ingredients under western methods, while the lowest GI was found in bread made with western ingredients under Asian methods.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>Phys.org<\/em> points out that the research has emphasized that the way the bread was processed and cooked was the biggest determining factor for glycemic index.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Looking for ingredients for your bread product?<\/h3>\n<p>Prospector has 1,000s of bread ingredients from global suppliers.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulprospector.com\/en\/na\/Food\/Product\/search?k=bread&amp;st=31&amp;so=k_0&amp;sl=36119586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nGet Ingredient Data<br \/>\n<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0308814614016021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the detailed research and findings on Science Direct here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s New in Food Technology &amp; Manufacturing<\/em>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodprocessing.com.au\/content\/prepared-food\/news\/full-steam-ahead-for-low-gi-bread-1078007662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full Steam Ahead for Low GI Bread<br \/>\n<\/a><em>Phys.org<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-11-glycemic-index-steaming-healthier-bread.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">: On the glycemic index, steaming produces healthier bread than baking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steamed bread, made by preparing a simple dough and cooking it over water\u00a0in a wok or steamer, is a staple of Asian cuisine. Recent research suggests that cooking bread with steam actually lowers its glycemic index, making it a healthier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/3384\/fbn-news-brief-steaming-bread-lowers-glycemic-index\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1237],"class_list":{"0":"post-3384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food-beverage-nutrition","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Steamed Bread Has a Lower Glycemic Index<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Steamed bread is a staple of Asian cuisine. 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