Friday Favorites: What Are the Health Benefits of Sorghum?

How does sorghum compare with other grains in terms of protein, antioxidants, and micronutrients? Learn why sorghum is one of my favorite new grains, and the benefits of red sorghum compared to black and white varieties.

Should we all be seeking gluten-free grains? See:
• Is Gluten Sensitivity Real? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-gluten-sensitivity-real/)
• Gluten-Free Diets: Separating the Wheat from the Chat (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/gluten-free-diets-separating-the-wheat-from-the-chat/)
• How to Diagnose Gluten Intolerance (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-diagnose-gluten-intolerance/)<br />
You might also be interested in my videos on millet. Studies on Millet: Is It a Healthy Grain? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/studies-on-millet-nutrition-is-it-a-healthy-grain/) and The Benefits of Millet for Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-benefits-of-millet-for-diabetes/).

The How Not to Diet Cookbook is full of delicious and healthful grain recipes. Check out the recipes (https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-diet-cookbook/).

“Resistant starch?” Learn more in Resistant Starch and Colon Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/resistant-starch-colon-cancer/) and Getting Starch to Take the Path of Most Resistance (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/getting-starch-to-take-the-path-of-most-resistance/).

For more on the benefits of different grains, see:
• Gut Microbiome: Strike It Rich with Whole Grains (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/gut-microbiome-strike-it-rich-with-whole-grains/)
• Benefits of a Macrobiotic Diet for Diabetes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-a-macrobiotic-diet-for-diabetes)
• Which Is a Better Breakfast: Cereal or Oatmeal? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/which-is-a-better-breakfast-cereal-or-oatmeal)
• Are Ancient Grains Healthier? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-ancient-grains-healthier?) />• Benefits of Quinoa for Lowering Triglycerides (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-quinoa-for-lowering-triglycerides)

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64 Risposte a “Friday Favorites: What Are the Health Benefits of Sorghum?”

  1. Bryan Johnson Blueprint, Ai will soon take the guess work out of it and all gurus and snake oil salesmen will soon be gone. Don't die, see you in 2500.

  2. Из сорго тоже делают веники, но это не просо- пшено.
    Сорго и амарант нейтральные крупы, в любые блюда можно добавить.

  3. Barley is my favorite grain. It has a lower glycemic index than any other grain I'm aware of and it's high in beta glucan, the stuff that activates the immune system. Nice to hear that it comes in colored, high antioxidant versions too.

  4. 8:34 "Which is a good thing in the age of epidemic obesity": This is a potentially misleading overgeneralization, and is a common misleading fallacy in the nutrition world.

    It's not a good thing for many individuals. For most obese people, probably yes; but for many of us, not at all.

    Generalizations from studies that apply to large populations often get misrepresented as applicable to the receiver of the information. But population studies often do not apply at all to the individual listener or receiver of the information — the generalized conclusion doesn't apply to many individuals in a population.

    This type of fallacy is very common in the nutrition space.

  5. I get sorghum from Bob’s Red Mill. I cook it in a pan like rice; takes one hour. Keep it in the fridge and spoon half a cup over frozen blueberries, and kefir in the morning. Easy and nutritious breakfast.

  6. I use sorghum as part of my multigrain porridge. Barley, oats, rye, mixed millets, red/yellow lentils and sorghum. It's good 'sweet' (flax, walnuts, berries, plant milk) or savory (turmeric, pepper, garlic powder, cumin, nigella, flax).

  7. I once found a plant in my Chicago garden, and it turned out to be a sorghum plant. We are near farms so birds can "plant" these. Dr. Greger, Amazon has Bob's Red Mill sorghum grain.

  8. Found some red sorghum on Amazon in Spain just now 🙂 Canadian here that left North America for a better lifestyle = at the beach right now with an ‘everything smoothie’, taking in some sun and watching a selection of your videos haha life is good

  9. My mum would feed me a slurry made out of sorghum and barley when i had loose motion or when my stomach upset..
    And it helped.. and now i see why ..

  10. I bought some white sorghum tried to pop it and would not pop. I then boiled it and did not like it. Tossed the rest in yard for birds.

  11. Last night, I ate about 7 pounds of plain potatoes for my last meal. My fasting glucose this morning was 88. This should clearly show that the glycemic index doesn't matter. You don't get more high glycemic than an enormous meal of potatoes

  12. Great video as always – but my vote is not include the pictures of the cancer mice. I don't think it really added to the learning, but it definitely added to me being creeped out.

  13. For some thought-provoking reading, try searching for "dangers of excessive polyphenol consumption" and "dangers of excessive antioxidants."

    More isn't always better. In fact, there is almost always a limit beyond which there are serious concerns and adverse consequences.

  14. Loves me some sorghum but I swear it used to be a lot less expensive and I wish it would be again. Note to the kitchen gardeners don't sprout this one; it's a bitter grass. Thanks Doc and staff 🥦❤

  15. I would consider buckwheat as even better. Buckwheat was considered a peasant food centuries ago. Only now studies show it's actually a super food. Very high in antioxidants and micronutrients.

  16. I mean I found red sourghum on Amazon. Even organic 🤷🏻‍♀️🤔 why does everyone say it’s god for growing mushroom?

  17. I've been baking with sorghum for some time now. I always add flax to up the fibre to carb ratio and I sweeten with xylitol to avoid added sugar.

  18. The problem with most grains is there phytic acid and lectin content that inhibits absorbtion of nutrients. Sorghum is the only grain that has very low, if at all, negative effects caused by phytic ac id and lectins….

  19. What do you think about Buckwheat? I just cooked up some buckwheat groats today and made tabouli with it. I may try buckwheat flour next. Any buzz about the health benefits of buckwheat?

  20. you did not find other sorghums because (at least) indians consider better varieties as superfoods as per traditional beliefs … in fact they have tradition to eat while unripe and when ripe too … unripe is roasted like corns on cob are roasted on open fires and shared with friends and family and just about any random visitor to house and according to traditional beliefs is considered as a "meva" food … word meva is used for superfoods in india and all local languages have a local synonym for such words

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