Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-13
White Bread VS.. Whole Wheat,

Our State nutrition specialist urged
us to eat more whole grain bread and
cereals. But now comes woman
demonstration of flour who tells class
of about 80 OF our women that white
bread is more nutritious than whole
wheat / am president Of the Home
Economics Club in my town and would
like the truth To present to my club.
Mrs F"
The demonstration of any product
would naturally be instructed to make
statements that would favor the selling
of that product, Mrs r. In this case,
one has taken very small part OF the
truth and presented 1t as the whole
truth.
The nart of truth this demonstration
has taken is that of equal weights of
bread made or white flour and whole
grain -four. there is more absorption
from the white -four, as there Is some
residue left In the whole grain which is
not ciieested. Therefore there would be
a small amount more Of energy Cr
caloric value obtained from the white
flour From this the demonstration has
evidently reasoned that the white flour
is more nutritious But the word nu~
tritious implies a great deal more than
simply the energy value of food. There
are the vitamin, mineral element and
the protein or building qualities to con-
slider. also the anti-conStipating effects.
The whole grain breads contain
practically twice as much Of the min
eral elements and vitamins as do the
white breads. and the protein is II
much superior quality The fact that
the bran is not wholly digeSted Is
point in it's favor because 1t helps COM
hot ISa
The following is what McCollum has
to- LAY in his Newer knowledge OF
Nutrition"
patent -four is one OF the most de-
fcient foods which enters into the hu-
man diet, being exceeded In this re-
spect only by isolated foods such as
starch sugars. fats or polished rice.
Bottled -four Is rather poor IN protein
and this Is Of rather poor quality 1t Is
very deficient in calcium, phosphorus,
sodium. ehlorin, iron and possibly also
In potassium Bottled -four Is also
very deficient in the anti-neuritic sub
stance twatcr-Soluble b rs shown by
the frequent occurrence of beri-beri
among the people of Labrador and New
foundland where bread from this
source is a principle article Of food. II
is exceedingly poor In fat-soluhc A.
and IN the organic factor playing
role in the prevention Of ricketts,. From
the standpoint Of human nutrition II
Is important also that II lacks entirely
the anti-scorbutc substance"
So on the different counts OF nutri-
ton you can see that whole wheat
bread is by far more nutritious than
white bread However do not get the
.dea that some food faddstS are trying
10 promuIgate that purified products
such as white -four sugars, etc, are
poisonous. They are not II you prefer
white bread eat IT, But remember
that you have to make more conscious
efforts to get your yitaminS. complete
proteinS and mineral elements in your
other foods
No grain has bioiogically complete
protein that Is a protein which con
tains all Of the building elements neccS-
sary for repair and growth. so even
though YOU are using the whole grain
products, YOU must also have foods that
give the complete protein, such as milk
and cheese. eggs and flesh foods
viii add that the reason Mile
and -four companies have given f.
their propaganda against whole whoa
hoir II that whole grain has moi good
Keeping qualities, Being much richer.