Aleuronate

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Aleuronate is a baking powder made from grain germs . Today, aleuronate is primarily used to make bread for diabetics . Its name is derived from the aleurone layer .

Aleuronate was developed in 1880 by Johannes Hundhausen , owner of the starch factory R. Hundhausen in Hamm in Westphalia , and a patent has been applied for. In the patent, Hundhausen describes the product he has developed as an "easily tolerated, blood-forming and nerve-strengthening tonic, valuable for stomach, intestinal, gout and diabetes sufferers, successfully administered for those with bleach addicts, gout and kidney patients, recommended by the doctor for convalescents, women who have recently given birth and those who are weak Children ".

literature

  • Frida von Winckler: Cookbook for diabetics and obese people using aleuronate flour and peptone . Bergmann, Wiesbaden, 2nd, enlarged and improved edition. 1897