Nutritious Items To Add To Your Bakery Menu

Posted by Karen Erdelac on May 29, 2019

pastry-shop-948776_1920In the world we live in today, there are more people that would like to eat healthier or have allergies that keep them from consuming bakery items. They want to have things like gluten free, vegan, keto or paleo snacks. Here are discuss each or these dietary trends and alternatives you can use to add them to your menu.

Gluten Free

Being gluten free has become a very popular diet to follow to lose weight and boost your energy. People take out gluten, which is wheat, barley, rye and triticale which is a cross between wheat and barley. Other than dieting some people remove gluten from their normal food consumption due to celiac disease or an intolerance to gluten. There are several different types of flour out there that can be used to replace regular flour.

Vegan Treats

A vegan diet means cutting out all meat, fish, poultry, and any animal byproducts including eggs, dairy and honey. These types of diets are extremely strict as there are so many animal byproducts in so many inconspicuous ingredients, even things like food dyes. Vegan diets help to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, control and prevention of diabetes, lower blood pressure, healthier body mass, and other chronic diseases. There are many egg and butter substitutes that would allow you to create delightful vegan treats.

Ketogenic Diets

Keto diets are extremely low in carbohydrates but high in fats. This type of diet may have health benefits against diabetes cancer, epilepsy and Alzheimer’s. With reducing your carb intake, you put your body into ketosis, which starts using stored fat and burns it for energy. This diet reduces blood sugar and insulin levels. Easy keto recipes will call for different types of flours, full fat dairy products, eggs, sugar-free chocolate, and natural sweeteners such as erythritol or stevia.

Paleo Diets

Paleo is the hunter-gatherer lifestyles that avoids things like grains, legumes, dairy, refined sugar, potatoes, any processed foods, salt, and refined vegetable oils. Paleo is used to help regulate blood sugar and insulin levels, and helps reduce the chance of imbalance diseases, such as osteoporosis, kidney stones, hypertension, stroke, asthma, insomnia, motion sickness, inner ear ringing or exercise-induced asthma. Paleo baking would use special flours such as coconut or almond flour, natural sweeteners like honey or fruit juices, dark chocolate, nut butter, unsweetened coconut flakes and dried fruits.

There are a lot of potential customers in the world that are looking for bakeries that have allergen free desserts as well as desserts to fit the more health conscious consumer. These 4 diet types are the most common and extremely easy to follow as most of them contain the same ingredients.

 

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