Why is Ezekiel Bread  Healthy
for you? Ezekiel bread is made from 4 grains & 4 beans. 

Ezekiel bread is actually a nutty sandwich bread that contains absolutely no flour. Ezekiel bread is made from four grains and four beans. Typically it contains wheat, spelt or rye, barley, millet, lentils, great northern beans, kidney beans, and pinto beans. This unique combination of ingredients is based on the biblical verse of Ezekiel 4:9 which reads: "Take also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt and put them into one vessel and make bread of it." 

According to the thebostonphoenix.com site, this biblically based recipe was intended to help survive famine during an upcoming war, not because it tastes good or that it's especially healthy (which it is). Barley and millet, throughout history, has been considered a poor man's food. Barley is a hardy grain that survives drought and frosts. It also grows in alkali soils. It is usually fed to livestock, but people can eat it too if they can stomach the flavor alone. Millet is a bland tasting grass used mainly in disadvantaged counties to feed the poor (and the seeds are given to birds). However, it is said to be a complete meal that satisfies all nutritional requirements. The combination of grains makes for the proper balance of amino acids to provide a complete protein. That's probably how Ezekiel was able to survive 390 days while lying on his side and eating only this bread.