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Surely this is not the first time you’ve seen or heard about charcoal breads<\/strong>. Undoubtedly the first thing that manages to capture our attention completely is its intense black color and, then, to think with what ingredient has been elaborated. There has been much talk about this bread variety, method to carry it out, whether it is toxic or harmful to the body and ignorance about its taste. Today I will tell you about this ingredient and how to make a sourdough charcoal bread<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I remember the first time I saw it in a sourdough bread\u00b4s community, the first thing I thought of was that it was made with squid ink. I thought it was a recipe I was never going to try because I was not going to like it … until I read what it was made with. It certainly surprised me a lot because I never thought that charcoal could be used in cooking\/baking. From there I started to look for information and read more about it, from where I realized that it is given many uses.<\/p>\n

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Bread has basically been with the element that has been given popularity, but charcoal has been used for a long time for the elaboration of some types of cheese, vegan cuisine or haute cuisine.<\/p>\n

Origin of active charcoal.<\/h5>\n

Active charcoal is not a current ingredient, in fact it is already mentioned in one of the oldest medical treatises that have reached our days, Eber Papyrus<\/em><\/a> of 1550 BC. It refers to charcoal as one of the most powerful substances for healing of the plant kingdom.<\/p>\n

Until the s. XIX in France did not make the first tests to confirm the therapeutic virtues from the scientific point of view.<\/p>\n

In the year 1813 Gabriel Bertrand French<\/a> chemist, who had been working with arsenic for years, demonstrated the incredible properties of charcoal. During a public exhibition he consumed a dose of arsenic capable of killing dozens of people without suffering any damage.<\/p>\n

The terrified spectators believed that the professor had lost his head and expected a creepy end. The professor calmly continued his presentation without experiencing any effect produced by the arsenic and, minutes later, unveiled his secret.<\/p>\n

Bertrand had discovered that charcoal was a universal antidote<\/strong> capable of inhibiting the effects of all kinds of poisons. What he did was dissolve a little active carbon in the arsenic to completely neutralize its effects.<\/p>\n

What is active charcoal?<\/h5>\n

Activate or activated carbon is a generic term used to describe a family of highly crystalline and highly porous internal carbonaceous adsorbents<\/strong>. We should not confuse the adsorbent<\/a> terms with absorbents<\/a>:<\/p>\n