Anyone here buys Ezekiel bread or Essene bread?

Platinum Member Joined: Jul 28 2006 Posts: 7190

Health books recommend it.

Who in BP/Flatbush sells it?

If you switched to it, do you feel better?

Posted: Sat, Jun 20 2009, 11:14 pm Post subject:

Is that gluten free?
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Senior Member Joined: Jun 10 2007 Posts: 159

I know that weiss bakery in boro park sells ezekiel bread. I tasted it. Its pretty good. 13th ave b/w 50 and 51st street.

Silver Member Joined: Jan 14 2009 Posts: 738 Location: NY

I used to eat ezekiel's bread all the time.

It's mezonos bread, btw. And it must be refrigerated because otherwise it goes bad quickly.

I haven't bought it since I moved to Flatbush, but I bet the food co-op and/or Natural Frontier Market, both on Cortelyou, will have it. The Food Co-op is generally cheaper, so I'd check there first. They're right across from the Q train stop on Cortelyou. (You could always call these places first to see if they have it.)

I believe I did feel better eating it, but I was on an overall better diet at that time. IMNSHO The number one thing anyone can do to feel better is to eliminate refined sugar, including artificial sweeteners, from your diet. You can get all the fancy, complicated diets you want, but you won't get far if you eat sugar. This includes sugar in cooking, and brown sugar.

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Are any Ezekiel breads made without wheat?

Platinum Member Joined: Mar 20 2005 Posts: 5262

I find it delicious and make a hamotzi on it.

Posted: Sun, Jun 21 2009, 2:01 am Post subject:

I heard that the Ezekiel's bread is made out of sprouts so it is Shehakol.

This is what I was told by someone who recommended this bread to me. Check with a Rav.

Landau's health food store in Boro Park has it. The Health Shoppe probably does too.
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I checked with the Chof-K a couple of years ago, because they give the Hechsher. They told me that it's Hamotzie, and, at the time, that it was Pas Yisroel. Later on I saw a sign in a health-food store in Brooklyn that it was no longer Pas Yisroel, but since I can't get this kind of bread otherwise, I eat it anyway. I find it filling, and I don't feel lethargic after eating it, unlike with regular wheat bread.

What is the bread made from?

Sprouted grains which are then ground into flour.

BTW, the package of Ezekiel bread has pasuk 4:9, but conveniently skips reference to 4:12...

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I ate it when we lived in the U.S. and bought it in from the freezer section of Whole Foods or at Trader Joe's.

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I always lived out of town and could get it in Trader Joe's in the regular bread section or sometimes in other stores in the frozen section. They have all the varieties of bread rye, spelt, wwheat, 7 grain... I can also buy it here in Israel both fresh and frozen. I buy it at the health food store.