You should preferably eat pumpernickel bread

Pumpernickel bread has a few surprising health benefits.

Let’s first recall where this strange name comes from. “Pumpern” is a German verb meaning “to fart” and nickel, like “Old Nick” in English, was a name for “the devil”. Thus, pumpernickel literally means “the devil’s fart.”

Pumpernickel is a well-known culinary specialty from Westphalia, in northwestern Germany. This bread began to be called pumpernickel towards the end of the Thirty Years’ War, which was fought primarily in Central Europe. This peasant bread was part of the German soldiers’ daily ration.

PumpernickelS bread is well-known for its extremely long shelf-life. When sealed in a tin can, it can stay fresh for almost 2 years, which explains why this bread, packed with coarsely ground rye flour and fermented with sourdough starter, was historically used for military provisions. The German soldiers who ate this bread on a daily basis could hardly tolerate its roughness. The indigestion they initially experienced would render the ‘farting devil” appellation all too appropriate