Sprouted Spelt Smell Sour

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Sorry for the cross posting - I'm throwing this out to several groups

and I know some of you are on them as well. But I need your help. I

have some spelt that I've been sprouting. They've been slow to

sprout maybe 4 or 5 days. Anyway, in the last 2 days they've smelled

a bit sour. So I've rinsed and rinsed them for the last 2 days.

Rinsed again just now and put them in the dehydrater. Now the whole

house smells soured. Are these ok to eat? I suspect I know what the

problem is - there were a lot of broken grains, which obviously won't

sprout - so those soured. But the question really is after they are

dried out and ground up as flour are the *safe* to eat?

We've been gluten free for a little over 5 weeks as a trial to see if

DH's rheumatoid arthritis would get better. It has improved, I'm

happy to say. But we've been missing some of the wheaty things in

our diets (like hamburger buns). We've adapted to the gluten free

baking for breads and cookies. But I thought that maybe adding some

flour made from freshly ground dried sprouted spelt, which also has

gluten in it, to a few special things would be something we could

try. I really don't want to mess up his RA improvements. But we are

ready for a trial of adding a little specially selected wheat

products to see if he's ok with it.

Also, anyone out there sprouted oats? They are very low on the

gluten scale.

Thanks for your help

Rhonda

[Guest guest]

>>>I have some spelt that I've been sprouting. They've been slow to

sprout maybe 4 or 5 days. Anyway, in the last 2 days they've smelled

a bit sour. So I've rinsed and rinsed them for the last 2 days.

Rinsed again just now and put them in the dehydrater. Now the whole

house smells soured. Are these ok to eat? I suspect I know what the

problem is - there were a lot of broken grains, which obviously won't

sprout - so those soured. But the question really is after they are

dried out and ground up as flour are the *safe* to eat?<<<

Can you pick out the broken ones? They would've just rotted instead of sprouting

and may give the final product a nasty taste.Cheers,

Tas'.

" Give it to us raw and wrrrrrrrrriggling " - Smeagol, LOTR.

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