84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 5, 2000
Consuming
Thoughts
by
Fay Strickler
Penn State Extension Home
Economist For Berks Co.
Appearances can be deceiving,
especially in the bread aisle of
the supermarket. You’re on the
lookout for a bread that’s high in
fiber, the most nutritious you can
find for your family. You pick up
a loaf that’s a warm brown color
with the word “wheat” promi
nently displayed on the label. If
you thought you’d chosen a
whole-grain bread chock full of
vitamins, minerals, and fiber-rich
bran, you’d not be the first mis
taken shopper.
It’s surprising the number of
people who don’t know that
there is a difference between
wheat bread and whole wheat
bread. Most breads are made
with wheat flour, namely refined
white flour that has had the bran
and germ mechanically removed.
In most cases, the flour is en
riched, by adding back three B
vitamins and iron which were re
moved in the refining process.
This light-colored flour is some
times darkened by adding a
harmless caramel coloring agent.
So what is labeled wheat
bread, regardless of how it looks,
is basically the same as what we
commonly call white bread.
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Whole wheat bread, by contrast,
is made from the whole grain.
Because the bran and germ have
not been removed, it has a natu
rally dark brown color is higher
in fiber and nutrients than wheat
bread.
Although some vitamins are
put back in to “enrich” wheat
flour, not everything that’s re
moved in the refining process is
added back again. This is partic
ularly the case with fiber, which
comes primarily from the bran.
Generally, whole wheat bread is
higher in fiber than wheat bread.
Check the nutrition label for the
fiber content. Two to three grams
of fiber per slice is a good num
ber to shoot for. Four grams per
slice is even better.
Be particularly careful to
check the fiber content on so
called six-grain or 12-grain
bread. Some of these multi-grain
breads are made primarily from
refined wheat flour, hence may
contain little fiber.
Breads identified by a particu
lar grain, such as oat bread, may
also not be what the name im
plies. Oat bread is often just
wheat bread (i.e., white bread)
with a small amount of oats
added. Check the ingredients to
see how far down oats are listed.
Remember the ingredients are
written in descending order, with
the most plentiful ingredient list
ed first.
Another potentially mislead
ing term is “unbleached” flour.
The term unbleached just means
that the wheat flour hasn’t been
chemically bleached to make it
whiter. Unbleached flour, which
may be slightly cream colored,
isn’t the same as whole wheat
flour.
So shoppers beware. When it
comes to buying bread, color says
nothing about content or nutri
tional value. Read the full prod :
uct name and compare it careful
ly to the ingredients label. As of
1994, most packaged foods in
cluding breads are required to
list the dietary fiber content as
part of a mandatory nutrition
facts panel. This regulation
should make it easier for you to
compare the nutritional value,
including fiber content, of vari
ous breads.
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Production, Marketing
LE RAYSVILLE (Bradford
Co.) Producers and beginning
farmers who would like to leam
about making and marketing
specialty cheese are invited to at
tend a Pennsylvania Farm Link
sponsored meeting at the Le
Raysville Cheese Factory on Au
gust 9 from 1-4 p.m.
Owner Jim Amery will de
scribe how he got started in the
cheese making business, pur
chasing local dairy products
from local farmers, the chal
lenges of making cheese and his
marketing efforts and outlets.
His cheeses won first and second
prizes in national competition at
the 1995 American Cheese So
ciety judging in Green Bay, Wis
consin.
Le Raysville Cheese Factory
was built by a group of Old-
Order Amish farmers in 1978 to
carry on the tradition of locally
owned creameries making
cheese to suit the taste and de
manding standards of local peo
ple.
Jim Amery continues to carry
on this tradition, making old
style raw milk Cheddar, pas
teurized Pennsylvania Jack,
Sommeleir, Pepper Cheddar, re
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equivalent of pasteurization.
Extra sharp cheddar is aged at
least one to two years or more.
To reach the Le Raysville
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Wyalusing to Route 706 north
east past Stevensville. Take 467
north and turn left at the sign off
Route 476, Vi mile west of Le
Raysville and follow dirt road V*
mile to the factory on the right.
Space is limited to the first 30
people, so contact Pennsylvania
Farm Link at 717-664-7077 to
reserve your place in this free
workshop by August 7 or for ad
ditional information on other
marketing events.
Farm Link is sponsoring a se
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sist beginning farmers and oth
ers looking for marketing
opportunities. Pennsylvania
Farm Link is a non-prbfit organ
ization governed by a Board of
Directors representing diverse
agricultural interests that works
to create farming opportunities.
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