In the attached picture, column 1 is whole Wheat Bread, 2 is Chicken Liver and 3 is Avocado; it shows the vitamins you get from 200kcal of each
Someone tried to provoke me by telling me I should eat nutritious whole grain bread. It did provoke me. I'm sorry 😳
But then I wondered, can bread - any bread - really be called nutritious, as in full of nutrients?
A food can only be nutritious by having more nutrients than other foods. After following the link I was given (verywellfit.com/whole-wheat... and doing further research, it seems clear to me that wholegrain bread might be healthier than white bread, but that's about it. If you exclude other grains, sugars and manufactured foods, any whole foods (including potatoes) will knock it out of the park.
I found an amazing site that let's you enter foods and compare them. After a bit of playing, I decided comparing isocalorific amounts of whole wheat bread and two foods I often eat and see how the nutrients stacked up. Those foods were liver and avocado and I selected 200kcal of all three.
Isoclarific means the same calories. This is the nutrition from 200kcal of wheat bread, chicken liver and avocado.
I have to admit, I was actually surprised by the difference. Until today I had thought wholegrain bread was nutritious, just not worth the carbs. But after seeing this, it's not worth the calories. There are a couple of minerals that the bread beats the other two (most notably sodium/salt) but almost every other metric, the bread adds nothing to your diet. I've attached the vitamins. Click the link to see the other nutrients.
If I was chowing down on a liver/avocado meal (🤮 this is a gedanken experiment, not something I would eat), would you advise me to replace some of it with a slice of bread, or add a slice of bread on top? I wouldn't. The bread wouldn't improve the nutrient profile or the satiety.
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I think you're breaking down my sandwich question from last week into constituent parts 🤔
I used to think of bread as fairly neutral. I used to eat bread as a "healthy" breakfast and a panini for a "healthy" lunch, whereas now I wonder what I was thinking.
I don't think we always have to consider bread as unhealthy (it's always the first thing I crave if I'm sick, which I think is about the easy energy) but I think challenging yourself to give it up, leaves a lot of room for more nutrient dense options on your plate.
You're so right. I haven't had bread for two months but have not felt good today so two pieces of sourdough toast with butter and marmalade was very welcome.
Here we must agree to disagree. I rarely eat bread, it’s something that has virtually disappeared along the way, much like many things as my diet has changed over the years with a lower carb, higher good fat way being my normal. I have no need to avoid bread due to a health condition or digestive reason I just don’t think about eating it. But very occasionally I have, and thoroughly enjoy, a bacon and egg roll aka a bap (no butter, my choice) when visiting a certain area. Great as they are a lettuce wrap just wouldn’t work for me then.
I haven’t eaten proper bread for many years. When I did eat it, I always regarded it as a healthy choice especially the whole meal or sourdough varieties. But my body never dealt well with it. Even before I realised I was gluten intolerant, it would really spike my blood sugar levels and I’d crave more of it. It seemed like an addictive food. For the first few years after cutting it out of my life, I still wanted it and looked enviously at others who could eat it 😂 but now I don’t miss it and I wonder what I liked about it. It just seems like empty calories. Not much better than a sugary drink or some cake. It’s a food of convenience really and should be seen for what it is rather than being sold as healthy.
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