Big Daddy Pizza is a newly established pizzeria in Herndon, VA that wants to reach out and make its mark in the community. It's a restaurant that uses only fresh and organic ingredients, and that's what makes it stand out from other restaurants in town.
In this day and age of GMOs, and so many people against the use of synthetic chemicals in foods, Kash, the owner, has put forth a mission statement to provide great customer service and high quality, organic foods to the local area.
What does that mean? For starters, Big Daddy Pizza uses unbleached and unbromated flour.
Bleached flour is flour that has been mixed with chemicals to make it white. In today's society we bleach our flour because flour naturally has a yellowish tint to it, and doesn't look very appealing. In the past we used to bleach flour naturally with time and air. However, being that time is money, we have in recent decades resorted to using chemicals to bleach it. (The Little-Known Secrets about Bleached Flour - Mercola.com)
There are many problems with bleaching flour. First is that it creates alloxen, a known carcinogen. Now those of you who are against animal testing in labs may not want to read this, but unfortunately those cute little lab rats are given alloxen in order to create diabetes in them so that they can study the effects of diabetes drugs. Basically, Alloxen causes diabetes!
Second, bleaching flour with chemicals strips away all the nutrients of the flour: all of the fiber in the bran layer is stripped; all of the nutrients in the germ layer is stripped, and all your are left with is the endosperm layer, which leaves only a small amount of the original nutrients... but then even THAT has been stripped away when the flour is bleached! So bleached flour has absolutely no nutrients at all!
Bromated flour is flour that has been treated with potassium bromate. This is done to give the dough elasticity and to help it rise higher. You might be interested to know that potassium bromate is a potential carcinogen that has been completely outlawed in the UK. In the United States however, it has not, though some states require that bromated flour be disclosed on food labels. (What is unbleached flour - Philadelphia Burtition | Examiner)
Big Daddy Pizza in Herndon, VA has nutritious, healthy pizzas, and great deals on their authentic New York-style pizzas. So if you are a pizza-lover why not try the best-tasting pizza in town?
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