Can you lose weight by eating whole wheat bread? The premise is to eat "real whole wheat" and tell you how to distinguish between true and false.

When many stars share diet meals, they will have whole wheat bread. As a diet meal, whole wheat bread occupies half of the staple food and is favored by many friends who need to lose weight and fat. Why can whole wheat bread stand out among many staple foods?

The answer is dietary fiber. "Whole wheat", as its name implies, means that the bran and germ outside are not removed. Bread made of whole wheat flour contains more bran and germ components than flour made of ordinary refined white flour.

Bran is rich in B vitamins, protein and dietary fiber, but it also means that its texture is very rough and its taste is not as good as refined flour. Choosing whole wheat bread as the staple food can increase satiety, prolong gastric emptying time and help control diet.

But what we don't know is that many people are cheated by whole wheat bread on the market. Many labels of whole wheat bread are not real whole wheat bread, which is not only not conducive to fat loss, but also easy to gain weight.

What is the real whole wheat bread like?

The main ingredients of real whole wheat bread should be whole wheat flour, yeast, salt and water. In order to attract customers and improve the taste of whole wheat bread, many merchants add a lot of fine wheat flour and whole wheat ready-mixed flour to bread. Dietary fiber content is far less than real whole wheat flour, so the effect of losing weight and fat is greatly reduced.

In addition to the insufficient addition of whole wheat flour, merchants will add some cream or a lot of sugar to make up for the taste. These additives will not play a role in reducing weight and fat, but will only make people fat.

However, the identification method of whole wheat bread is relatively simple. If you want to buy real whole wheat bread, you must first choose a regular merchant. The goods sold by vendors or friends in WeChat business don't even have a food manufacturer or a suitable ingredient list, so health and safety can't be guaranteed, let alone help reduce fat.

Secondly, on the basis of formal manufacturers, the ingredient list can give us a good reference. The order of the ingredient list is arranged according to the amount of addition. If whole wheat flour is not the first kind, then the main ingredient is whole wheat flour, and the fat-reducing effect will be discounted.

In addition, if you add ingredients such as cream, butter and sugar, it is not much different from ordinary bread. Friends who need to lose weight are advised not to choose this kind of bread.