2. Look at the ingredients list. Usually, the first ingredient list of whole wheat bread will be whole wheat flour or bran.
3. Taste. Non-whole wheat bread tastes sweet and delicate, while whole wheat bread tastes rough and has the taste of wheat.
There are many whole wheat breads on the market. Faced with so many varieties and brands of whole wheat bread, as consumers, can we really tell which are whole wheat bread and which are ordinary bread? Here are three ways to quickly identify whole wheat bread in a short time.
1. Know how to check the ingredient list. The ingredient list must contain whole wheat flour. If there is anything else, there is nothing. High-gluten flour, also known as wheat flour, generally refers to flour extracted from wheat husk. But wheat flour is not equal to whole wheat flour. The main ingredients of whole wheat bread are high-gluten flour, wheat flour, salt, yeast, milk or water. So high gluten flour is not equal to wheat flour, which will confuse the two.
Therefore, a better ingredient list of whole wheat bread should be wheat flour+high percentage of whole wheat flour (30%). If what you see in the ingredient list is whole wheat ready-mixed flour, then the whole wheat bread you see is not real whole wheat bread.
2. Taste it. Whole wheat bread has a rough taste and a strong sense of graininess and satiety.
Because of the high content of whole wheat, it is difficult to gluten. It is precisely for this reason that whole wheat bread has a rough taste and is not the mainstream taste, so it has not been respected by bakeries. Whole wheat bread tastes bad, but it is high in GI and protein, which is more suitable for young people, but it is not recommended for the elderly because it will increase the burden on the stomach. But if you make your own high-content whole wheat bread, you can add a little sugar to increase the taste. You must have nutrition, but you must also have taste.
3. Learn to distinguish between sugar and oil, because many handmade breads are sugar-free and oil-free, but how to distinguish between oil-free? Because the oil is added to the bread, it can greatly increase the softness of the bread and better prevent mildew. If you touch it by hand when cooling, and there is a faint oil layer on your hand, you can basically judge that you have added oil.
If vegetable oil is added in the process of making bread, it is basically inaudible, so it is difficult to identify. Adding a small amount of vegetable oil has little effect on health. In fact, adding a proper amount of butter can make the molecules spread rapidly when the bread is heated, which can make the bread emit a faint butter flavor.