White bread, whole grain as nutritious as whole wheat?

With catchy commercials, white breads with whole grains attract everyone's attention with their promise to enjoy the benefits of fiber by eating white bread! From a nutritional point of view, are they really so interesting? At the risk of disappointing many, they still have to eat crusts before outperform whole wheat breads!

Fibers

One of the benefits of whole grain bread is to promote bowel regularity. The fibers absorb water and swell. Thereby increasing stool volume, they reduce the risk of constipation.

Note, however, that this benefit attributable to whole grains depends in part on the size of the particles and fibers. It has been shown that they lose most of their laxative properties they are finely ground. Hope to obtain an effect on bowel regularity, its particles must be visible.

New technology

How bread, the first ingredient is enriched wheat flour can bring it up to 2 grams of fiber per slice? There are two explanations.

- Some brands will add to breads concentrate fiber from oats envelope.
- Other, in addition to adding this concentrate will add wheat flour blonde (lighter than the traditional wheat) spray.

One way or another, the crumb of the bread is smooth, uniform, homogeneous ... and almost white! That is fine, but as mentioned above, to have a beneficial effect on intestinal transit, constipation and feelings of satiety, fiber should not be reduced too small particles. However, this is exactly what happens to fiber in these new types of bread to obtain a nearly white bread!

Despite the advancement of technology, the good old whole wheat bread is still at the forefront of the most nutritious bread. Like what we sometimes reason to be wary of what seems too good to be true ...