Wheat flour is flour made from wheat, which usually refers to flour after bran removal. The flour after degerming and bran removal is high-precision flour, and the flour you often use is high-precision flour. So the bread made from wheat flour and high-precision flour is not whole wheat bread, so what kind of bread is real whole wheat bread?
Whole wheat bread 1, whole wheat flour
Wheat consists of bran layer, endosperm and embryo. Whole wheat flour is made by processing wheat without removing bran or germ. The bran layer is rich in protein, vitamins and minerals, and the cellulose content is very high, reaching 88% of the total cellulose content (endosperm 8%, embryo 4%). Embryo contains fat, protein, soluble sugar, various enzymes and a lot of vitamins. Therefore, whole wheat flour is rich in cellulose, vitamins and minerals. Therefore, whole wheat bread made of whole wheat flour has a rough taste and is rich in vitamins and minerals.
2. Whole wheat bread
Whole-wheat bread is a kind of baked food with whole-wheat flour as the main raw material and yeast, salt, etc. And then through the steps of fermentation, shaping, setting, proofing, baking and the like. Bread made of whole wheat flour is the real whole wheat bread.
The whole wheat bread dough will produce carbon dioxide gas during the fermentation process, which will increase the dough volume. There are also ethanol and lactic acid. Lactic acid is the main source of bread sourness. In order to improve the taste, a proper amount of sugar can be added to flavor. Whole wheat bread without sugar tastes sour, rough and chewy, and has a strong wheat flavor. The more you eat it, the more fragrant it becomes.
How to tell if it is real whole wheat bread? 1, regardless of product name.
Many whole wheat breads on the market now only have names, but they are not whole wheat breads. In order to guide consumers to buy whole wheat as a selling point, they will add the word "whole wheat" to the product name. Or the words "whole wheat" are printed in a conspicuous position on the front of the product packaging. There is wheat flour in the ingredients, so it is not real whole wheat bread, but the product name has the words "whole wheat bread" and "whole wheat" in a conspicuous position.
2, understand the product ingredient list
According to GB 7718-201KLOC-0/General Rules for the Labeling of National Food Safety Standards in prepackaged foods, the ingredient list on food packaging should be arranged in descending order of the amount added when processing food, that is, the ingredient with the most added amount is ranked first, and other ingredients are ranked from more to less. Therefore, the real whole wheat bread, the first in the ingredient list, is whole wheat flour. If the first one is not whole wheat flour, it is not real whole wheat bread.
The first ingredient list is whole wheat flour, and there is no other flour behind it. Therefore, this bread is really whole wheat bread. The first ingredient is wheat flour, the second is water, and the third is whole wheat flour. The product name is mellow (whole wheat) sliced bread, so this kind of bread is not really whole wheat bread.
Is whole wheat flour the first in the ingredient list or the real whole wheat bread? The first ingredient list is whole wheat flour, with an addition of 49%. The contents in brackets after whole wheat flour are: wheat flour, edible bran and wheat germ. What do you mean? This means that the main raw material of this bread is wheat flour, and edible bran and wheat germ are added. So this bread is not really whole wheat bread, its product name is whole wheat sliced bread. As can be seen from the ingredients, this bread has added sugar, oil, preservatives, bread emulsifier and edible flavors and fragrances. So the first ingredient in the ingredient list is whole wheat flour, not necessarily real whole wheat bread.