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Pioneer families carried sourdough starters across the Oregon Trail, kept them alive through blizzards, and passed them down for generations. This living bread culture was the only way to make bread rise on the American frontier, and modern science confirms it produced bread that was more nutritious, more digestible, and longer lasting than anything on store shelves today. So what happened? The modern food industry replaced it with commercial yeast and factory bread, and today most grocery store sourdough is not real sourdough at all. This is the story of the pioneer bread that was quietly killed, and why it still matters for homesteaders today.

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Carl Griffith's 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter —
Carl Griffith 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Page ; Wikipedia entry with full history and microbial analysis

Fleischmann's Yeast Company founding (1868) and 1876 Centennial Exposition — Fleischmann's official history; Christina Klieger, The Fleischmann Yeast Family

Wonder Bread history (1921), sliced bread nationwide by 1930 — Smithsonian Magazine; Wikipedia with sourced timeline

WWII bread enrichment mandates — Congressional flour hearings, 1940; America Comes Alive historical archive

Lopez HW et al., "Prolonged fermentation of whole wheat sourdough reduces phytate level and increases soluble magnesium," Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2001 — phytate reduction of sixty two percent with sourdough vs thirty eight percent with yeast; near ninety percent with extended fermentation

Liljeberg HG, Björck IM — Glycemic index research on sourdough bread, University of Guelph studies on blood sugar response

Arendt Z, Fadda F, "Exploring the Nutritional Impact of Sourdough Fermentation," Foods (MDPI), 2024 — glycemic index approximately fifty four for sourdough vs seventy five for conventional bread

Real Bread Campaign (UK) — investigation of supermarket sourdough, coining of "sourfaux" term

Boudin Bakery, San Francisco — established 1849, continuous sourdough mother culture

No legal definition of sourdough in the United States — confirmed across multiple food regulation sources; contrasted with France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland where sourdough labeling is legally protected

Pioneer Sourdough Bread, Homesteading Bread Making, Sourdough Starter History, Oregon Trail Sourdough, Self-Sufficient Bread Baking

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02:03 SECTION 1: WHAT PIONEER SOURDOUGH ACTUALLY WAS
05:30 SECTION 2: HOW THE FOOD INDUSTRY KILLED IT
10:12 SECTION 3: WHAT THE SCIENCE SAYS WE LOST
13:46 SECTION 4: THE MODERN LIE