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Can wheat bran lose weight?
Losing weight with wheat bran is actually a cognitive misunderstanding that people take it out of context. Wheat bran, also called wheat bran, wheat bran; It is the skin left after wheat flour processing, called bran. Because wheat bran contains a lot of crude fiber that human body can't digest (similar to sawdust), people are prone to abdominal distension and diarrhea after eating; It is seldom used as food. Mainly used as roughage for "livestock"; For example, feed pigs, cows and sheep.

In recent years, wheat bran has been "hyped" by the media as a health food that can treat many diseases, which is not credible and should not be blindly followed. If it is used to lose weight, it is even more ridiculous and unreliable. Wheat bran, namely wheat bran and wheat bran; It is a by-product of wheat processing flour, wheat yellow, flaky or powdery. At the end of wheat husk, some germ (that is, the germinated part of wheat) accounts for about 5 ~ 10% of the total wheat husk, and some germ is about 1/3 ~ 1/2 in flour. Wheat bran is divided into six layers, and the outer five layers contain more crude fiber and are not easy to digest. Mainly used for feed processing raw materials, wine making, etc.