Dumb question about wheat bread....

[joditoad1974]

I have been eating Merita lite wheat bread (40 calories a slice)...but is this considered Whole Wheat? If not, what is a good whole wheat bread? I am trying to clean up my eating a little bit, trying to get in more good carbs.

I am dumb as dirt when it comes to nutrition.....thanks for the help in advance! You ladies ROCK! LOL

joanna

 

[NurseLRT]

I don't think this is whole wheat. For the bread to be whole wheat, it must say 100 percent whole wheat, and list whole wheat flour as its first ingredient.

Lori

 

[dss62467]

It's only whole wheat if it says on the package that it's 100% whole wheat. Read the ingredients list.

 

[materialsgirl]

There are a lot of bread products out there called "Wheat" but they are not whole wheat. White flour is still made from wheat, so I guess they are still allowed to call it wheat, even if it's not whole grain. A lot of them add brown food coloring to the bread to make it look more "wheaty". It's kind of sneaky if you ask me.

Like others said, if the first ingredient of the bread isn't "Whole Wheat Flour", or "Whole..." whatever grain, then it's not whole wheat bread. There should be nothing "enriched" on the ingredients list - if it is enriched, it means the grain was processed and nutrients were added back in. Whole grains don't need to be enriched because they have not been processed to the point of losing all their natural nutrition.

 

[joditoad1974]

Thanks guys........that cleared up a lot, this nutrition stuff is confusing...lol

joanna

 

[kathryn]

>Thanks guys........that cleared up a lot, this nutrition
>stuff is confusing...lol


Actually, I think manufacturers WANT it to be confusing, so people end up buying their stuff. I've never heard of white bread being called "wheat bread" until people started getting more interested in WHOLE wheat bread.