Plantain flour – the gluten-free flour that is not a flour.

Delicious pancakes from plantain flour

Gluten-free flours do exist. There are flours from corn, from rice. There is teff flour, coconut flour, almond flour, oat flour, almond flour, tapioca flour. There is flour from cherry peas, from amaranth, from buckwheat … and of course from crickets (yes, the sweet insects).

One gluten-free flour that is missing from the above list is plantain flour.

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D-Mannose: Effective or not?

One employee had a recurrent urinary tract infection. Immunotherapy done years ago helped, but still an infection came up every now and then.

D-Mannose - a simple sugar with an amazing effect
D-mannose – a simple sugar

Doctors have repeatedly prescribed the antibiotic cudgel. Because antibiotics should only be used in exceptional cases, but here they became a regularity, we looked for an alternative treatment method.

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Recipe: Roasted Dulse Chips – “vegetarian breakfast bacon”.

Dulse is pretty and tastes great straight out of the bag …

Dulse, we have often said, is our favorite seaweed. It’s pretty, it tastes great and it’s also versatile.

Among other things, dulse is great for making incredibly delicious chips. Some people even compare dulse chips to breakfast bacon in terms of taste – and indeed, we find that dulse chips can be used quite nicely as a bacon substitute.

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Recipe: Pancakes from plantain flour (gluten-free)

Plantain flour pancakes with homemade banana ice cream and walnut puree – gluten free!

At Oak Grove, we eat gluten-free most of the time. But we also love pancakes – and pancakes are usually made from wheat flour and therefore not gluten-free. However, there are some gluten-free recipes that are just as delicious as conventional pancakes.

An excellent and gluten-free pancake recipe are these chia banana pancakes.

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