Cupcakes and cookies, buns and crumpets - an incredible variety of fragrant and delicious pastries that you’d like to treat yourself and your nearest and dearest every day without detriment to your health and figure.
CESNA is a new line of alternative flours will help you get the benefits and save your wasp waist!
Using CESNA, makes result of any culinary experiment, not only the most useful, but also incredibly tasty!
Pea flour
This stuff is produced by grinding pea grains.
It is a healthier alternative to wheat flour and it can be used separately or in combination with other types of flour.
Pea flour has a well-balanced variety of vitamins and minerals, due to which it causes the following positive effects:
- normalization of metabolic processes;
- beneficial effect on the nervous system;
- protection of the heart by reducing cholesterol level;
- strengthening of immunity;
- improving bowel function due to high fiber content
- prevention of anemia, due to the iron content that higher than 40% of its daily norm.
In addition, the ingredient perfectly promotes satiety for a long time, while it has a lower caloric value and carbohydrate content, but the protein content is increased!
Flour is mainly used for baking healthy bread, pancake and cookies. In addition, it is used in the preparation of vegetable cutlets, sauces and batter.
Buckwheat flour
Buckwheat flour is produced by grinding buckwheat grains. It has a fawn-colored, light brown or brownish color, a fresh nutty smell and bitter hint. Since flour does not contain gluten, it is combined with any flour that contains it during baking. But when preparing desserts, additional flowing ingredients are not required.
This product belongs to healthy food due to the presence of complex slow-release carbohydrates and more than 15 essential and non-essential amino acids.
- All this is beneficial for the body because of:
- reducing of blood clotting;
- blood pressure improvement;
- antioxidant effect ability;
- strengthening the osteocartilaginous framework, etc.
A baked food cooked from buckwheat flour not only does not cause weight gain, but also helps to maintain body weight at the same level!
Buckwheat flour is used in the preparation of desserts, gingerbread and bread, noodles and patty-cakes, etc.
Flax flour
Flax flour is a natural product that is prepared by processing flaxseed into powder after the oil expression.
Flour retains all the beneficial properties of flax seeds, while being a fat-free product.
Flaxseed flour has a wide range of uses:
- in cooking;
- as a remedy;
- for the prevention of diseases;
- for weight loss;
- to cleanse the body;
- in beauty culture.
Flax seed flour is useful for both women and men, it saturates the body with essential vitamins, micro and macro elements; it promotes the elimination of toxins!
In cooking, flaxseed flour is used as an alternative to traditional flour; it’s fair enough for water retaining that prolongs the freshness of finished foods.
Rice flour
This flour is made from rice grains.
It is used as a healthy alternative in the dietary and nutrient budget.
Rice flour is one of the few plant food products that boasts of containing all 8 essential amino acids necessary for the body functioning.
In addition, rice flour is rich in fiber, which is of great importance for bowel function, helps to reduce sugar and cholesterol levels.
Rice flour is an excellent thickener, so it can be used not only for making various pastries, but also for creating thick sauces, cream soups, etc. Rice flour is also used as a crispy breading for fish and meat.
Corn meal
Corn meal is a free-flowing product made from a special variety of yellow corn.
Due to this, flour has a lot of useful properties for the human body - rich in minerals, starch, vitamins, amino acids.
It is known that this product is able to cleanse the bowel and even human blood from toxins and harmful cholesterol. Products are made from cornmeal are considered low-caloric, so they are quickly digested and they optimize metabolism.
Main health benefits of corn meal:
- strengthens the cardiovascular system;
- normalizes blood sugar levels;
- improves skin condition;
- normalizes the work of the digestive tract, etc.
Cornmeal baking has a persistent and unusual aroma, as well as a rich yellow tint.
Corn flour can be used to prepare both second courses and desserts, and drinks!
Rye flour
Rye flour is a healthy and tasty product. It is rich in important biologically active components.
The composition of rye flour includes many useful nutrients; it is especially valuable for B vitamins and various minerals.
It is important to note the high content of fiber in the composition of rye flour.
It has also to be said that rye baking contains a complete list of all essential amino acids that are not produced by our body on its own.
The main dish made from rye flour is, of course, bread.
However, if you add another type of flour, you can also bake various pies, pancakes, gingerbread and cookies.
Whole wheat flour
Whole grain wheat flour is a food product prepared by one-pass grinding of unсleaned grains.
This flour consists of large particles of grain. At the same time, whole grains are a more useful product, since they include completely grained grains with a skin that contains the fiber necessary for good digestion.
The color is not snow-white, but dark with a gray or brown tint, however, after cooking, products made from coarse flour acquire a more appetizing rich yellow color.
The use of pastries prepared on the basis of or with the addition of whole grain flour has a positive effect on the work of the body as a whole:
- arterial pressure decrease;
- the work of the digestive tract improvement;
- the skin condition making better;
- bones strengthening, etc.
This flour is used for making bread, loaf, pizza dough, as well as gingerbread and other baked goods.