Eat More Whole-wheat Flour than White Flour
Wheat flour is a powder product milled from wheat. Wheat flour is the most consumed grain flour around the world.
There are three general types of grain flour.
White flour is made from the endosperm only; brown flour includes some of the grain’s germ and bran, while whole grain flour is made from the entire grain, including the bran, germ and endosperm. Germ flour is made from the endosperm and germ. So does the wheat flour. And for health, it is good to eat more whole-wheat flour than white flour.



Healthy Facts Whole-wheat flour and White flour
---Fiber content
Fiber content is one of the main nutritional difference between whole-wheat flour and white flour. Dietary fiber can help preventing constipation, lowering blood cholesterol and might help losing weight. However, the refining process of producing white flour removes the fiber-rich wheat bran, which means white flour contains less fiber content than whole-wheat flour. Whole-wheat flour food helps human’s dietary fiber intake goal.

---Vitamin content
Whole-wheat flour contains several vitamins: folate, riboflavin and vitamins B1, B3, B5, which makes whole-wheat flour superior to white flour in nutritional advantages. The grain flour milling process involved in producing white flour destroys grain’s vitamin content, so whole-grain flour often contains higher levels of vitamins than unenriched white flour, since some food manufacturer enrich their white flour with vitamins to fulfill the nutrients lost in processing.

---GI content
GI means glycemic index. It serves as a measure of how quickly the carbohydrate of food turns into glucose in human’s blood stream and provide fuel to cells. White flour has a higher GI than whole-wheat flour, so if you plant to regulate your blood sugar after a meal, choose foods made with whole –wheat flour.



Eat More Whole-wheat Flour
Try selecting a mixture of whole-wheat and white flours for baking cookies, muffins and cakes at home, and choose 100% whole-wheat flour to make homemade bread.
Check your bread labels at grocery store to select loaves made with 100% whole wheat, this bread is made by using whole-wheat flour, but those labeled simply "whole-wheat" might contain a mix of whole wheat and white flours.
Skip the white pasta and choose noodles made from a mix of white and whole-wheat flour in the pasta isle. Choosing pasta made using some whole-wheat flour boosts the nutritional content of your meal without sacrificing texture.
Whole-wheat flour foods give you certain nutritional benefits as well as good tastes.

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