What’s So Bad About Bread? For most people, bread is such an ingrained daily habit since childhood, that it is hard to imagine life without it. Its convenience is hard to beat, as is its ability to quickly fill us up for a fairly cheap price. But if commercial bread itself weren’t bad enough today for our health, bigger health problems arise given what most people put on their bread in making sandwiches. From margarine and mayonnaise, to jams and sugar based nut butters, to deli meats and processed cheeses, one unhealthy food item quickly turns into an unhealthy meal. It is not often one sees a sandwich that includes homemade hummus with vegetables, which at least could be considered healthy. But just to be fair, let’s take a look at what we are ingesting when we eat commercial breads. Here is a typical label from a white bread (Wonder Classic): Unbleached wheat flour, water, sugar, yeast, soybean and/or canola oil, salt, natural sour flavour (bacterial culture), cultured wheat starch solids, soy flour, vinegar, soy lecithin. It is hard to look at that label and believe that such a product is allowed to be sold, and more sadly ingested by so many, given the health and weight crisis we have in the world. From unhealthy fats to GMO ingredients, with a nice serving of sugar and sugar-like acting ingredients, this bread is a great recipe for inducing diabetes type 2, and then some. I will never forget when Wonder Bread advertised its newest product a few years back that was said to taste and look like white bread, but with the benefits of whole wheat. You have to wonder (no pun intended) what kind of unnatural processing that food had to undergo to mimic something completely unnatural to itself. Yet, I cannot tell you how many people were scooping it up as if all of their whole wheat problems were solved. To be more fair, health conscious people normally make better choices, right?
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:39:30 +0000
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