Bread - the Healthy Option

Something we have instinctively known has now been proved - Bread is good for us!

Bread and the Food Pyramid

Grain-based foods like bread form the foundation of the Good Food Pyramid, the Food guide to healthy eating, along with cereal, rice and pasta. 6 to 11 servings per day, (depending on one’s energy requirements) of the Grain group are recommended in the guidelines.

The Good Food Pyramid indicates the foods we should be eating and the optimum quantity of each. For example:

• foods at the base are those we should select more often
• those at the top are those we should select least often

Reduce dietary fat and sugar

Nutritional science has proven that eating too much fat and sugar and not enough foods containing complex carbohydrates can lead to coronary heart disease. A high fat, high sugar diet has also been linked to other illnesses such as cancer and strokes. Bread, high in complex carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, is the preferred nutritious substitute for high fat and sugar foods. In addition, foods high in complex carbohydrates like bread are more slowly digested than sugar-laden foods, staving off hunger and allowing for a slow and steady release of energy as the complex carbohydrates are digested.

Wellness Bread is made from the freshest, purest ingredients you would expect in a nutritious bread and it is slow baked to preserve the natural ingredients. It is the added ingredients such as Inulin, which bring Wellness Bread into the category of Functional foods making it a truly extraordinary bread. A serving of Wellness Bread is equal to 50 grams or 2 slices (average measurement) with a slicing thickness of 5/8th of an inch.