I always go for the most whole wheat of breads as they are the most healthy. But in the healthy spectrum of bread, something that's all too popularly sold in my opinion is bread with seeds. Somehow seeds are supposed to be associated with something healthy. But I have never heard that seeds are an essential part of diet, they may not be well digested, and they get stuck in teeth (that happens to me a lot).
Every once in awhile I find myself buying bread with seeds because it's not necessarily clear from the packaging which bread has seeds and which doesn't. Then, when I do, about 4 days later I have serious gum pain which lasts for days even if I remember to cut out the bread with seeds.
Since they don't much advertise which breads have seeds and which don't, or even have any markings on the packaging, it seems like the plan is to dump seeds on customers, as though they were some waste product which is most profitably discharged by mixing it with the product sold.
My latest mistake was "Oroweat 12 Grains" whose seeds made my gums hurt in 3 days. I don't see that it warns about seeds anywhere on the package. My usual bread is Oroweat 100% Whole Wheat. Oroweat used to make their top 100% Whole Wheat bread with Stone Ground Whole Wheat, but this has disappeared in the list of ingredients. Still, the bread has texture more like stone ground than most. A doctor in 1973 advised me to always find "the real whole wheat, stone ground whole wheat." And by now that is not easy anymore.
Every once in awhile I find myself buying bread with seeds because it's not necessarily clear from the packaging which bread has seeds and which doesn't. Then, when I do, about 4 days later I have serious gum pain which lasts for days even if I remember to cut out the bread with seeds.
Since they don't much advertise which breads have seeds and which don't, or even have any markings on the packaging, it seems like the plan is to dump seeds on customers, as though they were some waste product which is most profitably discharged by mixing it with the product sold.
My latest mistake was "Oroweat 12 Grains" whose seeds made my gums hurt in 3 days. I don't see that it warns about seeds anywhere on the package. My usual bread is Oroweat 100% Whole Wheat. Oroweat used to make their top 100% Whole Wheat bread with Stone Ground Whole Wheat, but this has disappeared in the list of ingredients. Still, the bread has texture more like stone ground than most. A doctor in 1973 advised me to always find "the real whole wheat, stone ground whole wheat." And by now that is not easy anymore.
