If you don't find what you're looking for, leave us your question in the form at the end of this section and we will respond. A. Six to 11, depending on your age and activity level. High-carbohydrate foods such as bread, cereal, pasta, crackers, tortillas and other grain foods are generally low in calories. However, anything eaten in excess will be stored as fat.
Carbohydrates contain four calories per gram while fat contains nine calories per gram.
That means you can eat over twice the amount of carbohydrate foods for the same number of calories as high fat foods. Both breads are made from wheat flour. Whole wheat is composed of the entire kernel - the bran, germ and endosperm. White bread is milled from only the endosperm. Both whole wheat and white breads are high in complex carbohydrates and low in fat.