Initial report on pumpernickel: Wow. Most satiating food I've ever experienced.
When health food promoters say food X does Y, I don't generally dismiss it, but I don't put much weight upon it. Usually such effects, while statistically significant, aren't actually enough to make much practical difference. Or it doesn't work on me. Even if the food promoter says something like "four-fold" I still don't generally get excited about something.
So it was with "fiber" and "gut microbiome", and in particular "rye". Supposedly rye has a lot of resistant starch and digests much slower, especially whole rye, and feeds your gut cell walls with short-chain fatty acids which have a long list of supposed health effects. I read (or heard) that some of these effects including reducing your appetite for high-energy foods.
In a post I made about a week ago, I baked 2 loaves of pumpernickel bread. Not for health. Just to try it. These loaves are massively dense, completely unleavened, but remain moist enough to slice thinly and they apparently never go bad (can store in a tin as emergency food). Note that there are variants of pumpernickel that are leavened and do not have quite the same properties... I'm talking about the stuff with no bubbles, just packed dense slow-cooked whole rye kibble.
On the first day of eating this, I probably went in too much at once and it roughed my guts. But I kept eating it at low levels anyways since I had no other bread in the house.
As of today I'm not even half way through the first of these 2 loaves. I've had no other bread or wheat-based product other than this bread. And what has happened has kinda shocked me: I'm not hungry for bread or carbs. I'm eating less than normal. And I keep getting up and doing things, even without the drive of being caffeinated. I've lost some weight, but not a lot yet, but really the appetite supression or let's say the satiety that this bread provides is unbelievable... I would not have believed it had I not experienced it myself.
