White, wheat or Multigain???

 Flour is undoubtedly one of the most important foods in our diet, not because it's nutritious but because we eat it out of habit and eliminating it from our diet is nearly impossible.

 Throughout my career as a Nutrition Consultant I have come to realize that people simply aren't going to cut bread, cookies and crackers out of their diet no matter how badly they want to loose weight or control their blood sugar. Because of this I've decided to write about flour so as to clear up a few important points.

 First of all, most flour products such as bread are normally made from wheat flour and there are two types:

Whole wheat flour, which tends to be darker in color and is the healthier of the two, and white or bleached flour. White flour is now called Enriched Wheat Flour and is the exact opposite of what the name indicates! In fact it is the biggest rip off yet. 

What is enriched flour? Its wheat that has been so processed it no longer has any nutritional value. Wheat happens to be a very healthy grain as it has around thirty different nutrients including Iron and Fiber, which is there to help you digest the wheat so it doesn't stick to the walls of your intestine.

When wheat is ground up and processed to make Enriched Flour, they take out over half of the nutrients and the fiber so the bread will be soft and white and they add sugar!

 This is why every day, more and more people are opting to buy whole wheat bread instead. Unfortunately, most large bread manufacturers don't want to work double so instead of preparing Enriched Flour on one machine and whole wheat flour on the other, what they do is add artificial fiber and "Caramel" coloring to the Enriched Flour then sell it to you as whole wheat bread. This imitation bread is the same or worse than white bread yet they sell it at a higher cost because "it's healthier".

 And this is why you should learn to read food labels. Don't get ripped off any longer! Real wheat bread will have as its first ingredient Whole Wheat Flour. Also, you won't see listed in the ingredients sugar or "Caramel" color as whole wheat tends to be sweet on its own and is already dark. And by looking at the nutritional panel you will see that compared to other breads it is much higher in Iron and Fiber, and lower in carbs.

 There is a third type of bread which is superior to both white and wheat breads and that is Multigrain. This bread, so long as it is real Multigrain and not another knock off is very recommendable for people trying to lose weight or diabetics because it is lower in carbs and contains several different types of grains and oats.

So next time you go to the grocery store: buy bread instead of lies!

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