#bread nutrition

Ever ‘Wonder about Wonder Bread?’ Why Bread is Good For You.

Ever ‘Wonder about Wonder Bread?’

I love bread and bread loves me – around the middle that is… There’s nothing better than the smell of hot, fresh baked bread coming from a bakery (ahhh the days of France) or set on a table in a restaurant lovingly wrapped in a napkin on the quintessential bread basket as a prelude to your main repast. Warm bread slathered in butter is addicting – you just can’t…

With so many types of breads available, choosing the best and the healthiest one can be confusing. So here is the lowdown on the most popular breads, their nutritive values and my take on each.

By Panchali Moitra The history took a dramatic turn, around 30,000 years ago when the first bread was produced using a paste of grain flour and water. Historians may differ on how the first bread was prepared: “accidental cooking or deliberate experimentation” but they all agree that it was the evolution of bread and later the industrialization of bread baking that revolutionized the entire food…

Why Bread Makes You Fat and High Fat Foods Can Help You Lose Weight

For a long time, we’ve been told to eat a diet low in fat and high in carbohydrate rich grains to be healthy. The food pyramid, found on school classroom walls and doctors offices, has breads, grains and other starches and its base. The message is eat more wheat, corn and other grains and we’ve been listening.

Wheat production alone has tripled in the last 50 years to try and keep up with our…