Bread..any bread (stomach, gluten, bloated, free)

[njkate]

Why is it if I eat a sandwich the bread bloats me and makes me unconfortable but yet if I toast same bread it does not bother me..at first I thought the wheat gluten thing but wheat & gluten are still there after toasting

[Charles]

my suspicion is that the nontoasted bread somehow can absorb the moisture in your stomach expanding tov make you feel uncomfortable and bloated where as the toasted bread doesn't expand as much and its probably just some sort of physical property of bread.

[Opsimathia]

Toasted bread goes under a slight chemical change:

Maillard reaction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Buy a loaf of gluten free and see if it makes a difference.