Have you ever found him at the bakery? I do, from loaves to breadsticks. Black, like coal, actually a little less than coal, let’s say a more or less intense gray up to anthracite. Everywhere is fashion, even in restaurants.
In Japan, the Burger King chain also made black burger buns. In short, the fashion for black bread has broken out . Not real black bread, wholemeal or rye bread.

I’m talking about charcoal black bread, a bread to which charcoal is added which, in addition to giving the characteristic charcoal black color which when combined with the flour turns gray, would add to the classic loaf not so much a different taste as different digestive and purifying properties. and anti-inflammatory.

Activated carbon is in fact a vegetable charcoal also suitable for food use , often used as a supplement due to its incredible absorbing power: it is recommended in case of colitis and meteorism, to reduce intestinal fermentation and absorb excess gas, therefore to deflate the belly, and as a detoxifying cure.

In fact, its absorbent power is also purifying: in fact, coal absorbs and therefore helps eliminate the so-called toxins , the chemical agents that we often ingest with food (for example pesticides with fruit and vegetables) and even highly poisonous substances.

According to Wellness Mama , a topical (i.e. on the skin) vegetable charcoal and baking soda batter reduces inflammation from bee and other insect stings, and in 1831 a doctor did an experiment by ingesting a lethal dose of strychnine with charcoal. plant at the French Academy of Medicine, and miraculously came out unscathed, precisely because the coal had absorbed the poison into the body (NO CE TRY!).

In short , added to bread, black coal would maintain these incredible properties: cool, right?

Well, wait a minute. Here too, taken by fashion and enthusiasm, one detail escapes us, that of the quality of the product.
For example, if you are a wholemeal fanatic, you must always ask yourself if the bread is made with wholemeal cereal flour and above all with natural leavening.

In fact, the charcoal colors the bread black, but the flour could also be refined, and the leavening could be that with brewer’s yeast.

Furthermore, although the concentration of food-grade charcoal in charcoal black bread is well under the risk of toxicity, it also depends on how much of it is used.
One more reason to buy it from your trusted baker, the one who knows his stuff.

Third problem: charcoal can paradoxically cause meteorism and swelling and constipation in some, if for example we already have difficulty going to the bathroom. Acts like a nice fiber pad! If, on the other hand, you suffer from acidity and have frequent and watery droppings or colic, then it will certainly be for you.

Fourth and last problem: pay attention to all substances with great absorbing power. It is true that they absorb many harmful substances and in addition limit intestinal fermentation, but also limit the absorption of vitamins, mineral salts, and even active ingredients of drugs, which must be taken hours before ingesting vegetable charcoal.
Same thing for hormonal therapies, including contraceptive therapy.