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Why do you need more water to make bread with wholemeal flour than white flour?
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∙ 13y ago
One does NOT need more water to make wholemeal bread than to make white bread.
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Is it possible to have wholemeal pita bread?
Yes. Wholemeal flour can be substituted for up to half the white flour when making pita bread at home. Most supermarkets carry whole wheat (whole meal) pita bread alongside pita made with white flour.
Why do you use wholemeal instead of white flour?
Don't quote me on it, but I think it's healthier...
Is bread a fiber rich food?
well obviously yes. the flour is made up of the whole of the wheat including the part with all the fibre in it. if you take a look at wholemeal flour it has bits in it when you sieve it. that's the fibre.Yes, but wholemeal shouldn't be confused with wholewheat. Wholemeal flour contains around 85% of the grain and produces a bread that contains more fibre than white flour. Wholewheat includes all of the grain and provides more fibre than white and wholemeal. Wholewheat flour makes a denser loaf with less available gluten to aid rising of the dough, hence the more popular use of wholemeal.
What is the difference between white flower and wholemeal flower?
I think you are confusing the homophones flower and flour. Flour is ground wheat used to make bread from and comes in many varieties of which white and wholemeal are but two examples.
What is better White bread or whole wheat bread?
Yes, it is. white flour used to make white bread is bleached and processed (some countries use nasty chemicals to do this). The Brown flour is much less refined, and a more 'natural' product. White bread may also contain more sugars and additives. This is, of course, subject to which brand of bread you buy! Read the label, the less confusing chemical names in the list and the higher up the list the flour and water is, the better.
Why is wholemeal bread a healthier source of starch than white bread?
because starch white bread is made with sugar and wholemeal bread is made with wheat.
Can you use white flour to make chapati?
You can but it has to have at least a 1/4 wholemeal ( the wholemeal it high in gluten which makes the bread separate into two sort of layers)( like pita) so the answer is a sort of.
What ingredient would be altered if you put wholemeal SR flour instead of white SR flour?
The flour ingredient would be altered, wholemeal flour contains bran and wheatgerm while white flour has these ingredients removed.
What are some types of leavened bread?
um........ wholemeal sweet white honey wheat
What is the ratio of fat to flour in scones?
Use wholemeal flour instead of white - OR - replace some of the white flour with bran.
How much minerals does cereal and a sandwich have?
The amounts can vary somewhat from the type of bread or cereal. Six slices of white bread every day will provide around 20% of the recommended daily calcium intake. Amount of iron in mg / per 100g - White bread 1.6 mg, Brown bread 3.2 mg and Wholemeal bread 3.5 mg. Over a third of our daily requirement of thiamin comes from cereals and flour-based foods such as bread Folic acid is present in wholemeal flour and added at higher levels to some breads.
Why does white bread have more fiber than wholemeal bread?
White bread normally doesn't have more fiber, unless artificial fiber is added before the bread is baked. Whole wheat bread is more nutritious because the flour isn't bleached and all of the wheat germ is still left in. If the brand of white bread says it has more fiber, they are using fiber from an artificial source. In the 1980's, a brand of "high-fiber" bread actually used saw-dust to add fiber to their product They were forced to take their product off of the market.
