A little background. I originally started milling my own grains in about 2005. I went to Bread Beckers in Woodstock, GA, took a class, bought my mill and grains and I was off! We all loved the freshly milled, homemade bread. Friends came over and just waited for it to come out of the oven to get a slice. Not one person complained about the "whole grain" flavor.
Then we had a child diagnosed with celiac. I tried to keep making my bread but it just seemed wrong to have all that flour flying around no matter how careful I was.
For 20 years I ran a nearly clinical gluten free household. I did some baking but gluten free things just don't have quite the same taste and often are more difficult to get good outcomes. We mostly ate meat, produce and corn items to avoid gluten.
Always a label reader but I began to notice that all I was doing was looking at labels to confirm there was no gluten. If things passed that test, I bought it. All my other knowledge of quality ingredients fell off my checklist. I also noticed that most GF foods are made with seed oils and almost none are organic. This led me down a lot of rabbit trails but also back to whole grains.
The now adult child with celiac, no longer in our home, I found myself back to whole grains, milling and baking. This time I truly understood the why of this decision. It was not just for the yummy bread, it was for nutrition, cost control, self-sufficiency and to fill our pantry.
Here is where I want to chime in about Sue Becker's podcast, Sue's Healthy Minute (The Truth About Wheat episode #7 https://www.breadbeckers.com/blog/sues-healthy-minutes/); this became my lunch companion.
Additionally, on these podcasts, many people, who had been diagnosed as celiac and put on a GF diet, have told their success stories of getting back to real whole grains and I have personally heard some of these stories as well. This got me researching if this issue is wheat or something done to some wheat and other whole grains. Seed oils and glyphosate wreak havoc on the body's systems it turns out.
Her YouTube channel where I found myself glued to this 3 hour explanation on digestion, health, nutrition and where processed food goes wrong and how we suffer for it -