BF Bakery Results: Experimenting with Breadfruit + Tapioca - Gluten-Free, Cereal-Free

In rural parts of Ghana, like in many tropical countries, there's not much choice of bread. Wheat flour is imported, and often stored so long that larvae of small beetles develop in the flour, as well as mould, and oxidation takes place. The resulting bread is invariably of extremely chewing-gum like consistency with high gluten content and literally makes many stomachs churn. So, we tried to take breadfruit literally to experiment with producing possible alternatives with it. Pure breadfruit dough won't taste anything like wheat dough, though. Thus, we tried adding readily available, cheap and generally healthy tapioca... This video briefly shows some of the promising results of our experiments (see the preceding videos), using only fresh, raw, blended breadfruit mixed with cassava flour (tapioca) and yeast or baking soda. Gluten free. Totally cereal-free dough. Breadfruit has a very low glycemic index, while tapioca has quite high glycemic values. Tapioca starch is made from maniok = cassava = yuca roots. The final dough contained roughly 50% tapioca - we'll try different mixtures and ratios in the future, also with yam starch, millet starch and many more. Our goal is to find an optimal recipe to substitute gluten in bakery as much as possible. Since this is the first bakery result without any cereals that somewhat resembles wheat flour results when fresh, we count it as promising. We're only starting experimenting. This is not a recipe (although we regularily eat it). (What is described as "dumplings" in the video, is rather fried puffs or donuts). - - 🌳 Learn more about our Breadfruit Project: We are Abena & Alex, a Ghana-based agroforestry couple growing and processing breadfruit trees in real-world conditions — small-scale, hands-on, and always experimenting. 👉 Read our full feasibility paper ("7BIO") Scientific, down-to-earth, and detailed – the foundation of everything we do: ➤ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MkgN... 👣 Visit our blog With insights, updates, and behind-the-scenes thoughts (gradually): ➤ https://breadfruithostel.blogspot.com/ 🛸 Ask our trained Breadfruit AI! Got questions? Our AI (trained on all our data) is ready to help: ➤ ...at our blog 🗺️ About this channel: Breadfruit isn’t hyped. It’s not trending. But we believe it could quietly save the world. That’s why we (gradually) film our progress – and show what’s really possible. Shaky, underedited videos in sporadic succession is what's to be expected in our really tumultous life. So you may have to 'stay tuned' a long while. 🗣 Contact us / Support: alexanderilli@freenet.de asister996@gmail.com We have a secure donation form at our blog - Visit our blog for more extensive information - respective posts are now up*. https://breadfruithostel.blogspot.com/ including full analysis of all relevant scientific evidence. Music by REDproductions @ Pixabay, AKA Audiosphere