Topic Posted by: cheri
Date Posted: Tue Nov 10 16:24:21 2009
Additional Comments:
This is kind of a vague question, but a week or so ago (a couple of weeks?) I was reading a food topic on this board and a poster said that if some ingredient was in whole wheat bread, you may as well be eating white bread.
Does anyone remember what the ingrdient/substance was? I meant to print it out at the time, but forgot and now I can't find it. Thanks in advance for any answers
Posted by: Paige Date posted: Tue Nov 10 20:38:39 2009
Message: Hey... that was probably me in talking with Camochick. We were talking about reading food labels. When it comes to wheat bread, the label should say whole wheat flour. When it is labeled with the word "enriched", the healthiest parts of the wheat have been removed and your body absorbs it differently. White bread is made from enriched wheat flour that has been bleached to make it appear white so eating "wheat" bread is the same as eating white. The package should say "100% whole wheat" and nowhere in the ingredients should be the words bleached or enriched. Many multi-grain breads are actually made with enriched flour and have caramel coloring added to make them appear dark.
On a side note, also important to look for high fructose corn syrup which is being unnecessarily added to bread products.
