What is whole wheat bread?

Coarse grain bread includes whole wheat bread, bran bread, oat bread and coarse grain bread. Bread made of oat flour, wheat flour, flaxseed, Jiangxi flower seed, walnut, hazelnut and other raw materials is called "coarse grain bread".

Whole wheat bread refers to bread made of whole wheat flour without bran and wheat germ, which is different from ordinary refined flour (that is, flour milled after wheat particles remove bran and nutritious colored parts under the skin).

Whole wheat bread is characterized by brown color, many small grains of wheat bran visible to the naked eye, rough texture, but fragrant. Because its nutritional value is higher than that of white bread, and it is rich in crude fiber, vitamin E, zinc, potassium and other minerals, it is very popular abroad, and it is rich in B vitamins, so microorganisms especially like it, so it is more prone to mildew than ordinary bread.

In order to reduce costs, some bakeries usually make fake whole wheat bread. One is "coloring", in which caramel or syrup is added to white flour to make the baked bread appear natural light brown and look like "whole wheat bread" by using the "carbonization" phenomenon at high baking temperature. The specific identification method is that this kind of bread has a tight incision, and when you taste it, it will reveal flaws. The other is to add germ and bran to white flour. The processed bread looks and tastes like whole wheat bread, but although it tastes rough, the bran doesn't feel as full as wheat particles in your mouth.

Whole wheat flour contains B vitamins, which has certain preventive and dietetic effects on fatigue, backache, loss of appetite, beriberi, boils and various skin diseases. Whole wheat bread is rich in crude fiber and has a certain therapeutic effect on constipation.