100% Whole Grain VS. 100% Wholewheat

Drax · 10-03-2007, 09:16 PM

BTW Dana McHottie, what's yer word on this one?

monster · 10-03-2007, 09:53 PM

Drax, if you really want good bread, you need to avoid the supermarket pre-packaged, pre-sliced stuff. Go to somewhere like Panera or Great Harvest or your local equivalent and ask them what's in it. (Or Whole Foods or Trader Joes) Tell them the diet you're trying to follow and ask their advice.

But if you want to buy the mass produced pre-packaged stuff, Dana's advice is spot on. Compare the labels. She's also spot on about the high-fructose-corn-syrup crap. But she's in the UK. She may not realise how hard it is to avoid that shit over here without paying top dollar.

The list of breads you cite are all crap, frankly. But then I suspect we have different tastes in bread, so it's hard for me to recomend an alternative -European bread is much less sweet than American bread and does not have HFCS in it. We prefer white bread and buy Italian or Vienna bread from the bakery at our local grocery store. Their whole wheat is good too. But it's nowhere near as sweet as the brands you list. If you want to be certain that your bread is good for your needs, buy it from somewhere that bakes it themselves and ask them.

And re the original question -well that was nailed in post 2. Wheat is not the only grain. If it's whole grain, it's whole grain. It can be whole wheat grain, or it can be other grains, or a combination.

monster · 10-03-2007, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Drax

BTW Dana McHottie, what's yer word on this one?

My word is ugh.

Cloud · 10-03-2007, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Drax

BTW Dana McHottie, what's yer word on this one?

I'm not Dana, but the ingredient list shows stoneground whole wheat flour as the first ingredient, so yes, it's whole wheat bread.

Drax · 10-04-2007, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

I'm not Dana

There wuz no reason to say that. The only reason I directed my post to Dana wuz that she seemed the most helpful at first, but thanks for your input.

beauregaardhooligan · 10-15-2007, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Thanatos

...what's yer word on this one?

As for *that* one, it's clearly *not* 100% wheat, since there is sugar, water, yeast, etc. which are required to make the 100% whole wheat into bread.
The wheat used is 100% whole wheat.

10-03-2007, 09:53 PM	#2
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Drax, if you really want good bread, you need to avoid the supermarket pre-packaged, pre-sliced stuff. Go to somewhere like Panera or Great Harvest or your local equivalent and ask them what's in it. (Or Whole Foods or Trader Joes) Tell them the diet you're trying to follow and ask their advice. But if you want to buy the mass produced pre-packaged stuff, Dana's advice is spot on. Compare the labels. She's also spot on about the high-fructose-corn-syrup crap. But she's in the UK. She may not realise how hard it is to avoid that shit over here without paying top dollar. The list of breads you cite are all crap, frankly. But then I suspect we have different tastes in bread, so it's hard for me to recomend an alternative -European bread is much less sweet than American bread and does not have HFCS in it. We prefer white bread and buy Italian or Vienna bread from the bakery at our local grocery store. Their whole wheat is good too. But it's nowhere near as sweet as the brands you list. If you want to be certain that your bread is good for your needs, buy it from somewhere that bakes it themselves and ask them. And re the original question -well that was nailed in post 2. Wheat is not the only grain. If it's whole grain, it's whole grain. It can be whole wheat grain, or it can be other grains, or a combination. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-03-2007, 09:16 PM	#1
Drax Banned Join Date: May 2007 Location: Gallman, MS, USA Posts: 1,933	BTW Dana McHottie, what's yer word on this one?

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