5. Brown bread

Brown bread is not always more nutritious than white. The bread you want to make part of your healthy diet is the wholewheat variety.

The brown colour is sometimes just white bread with added colouring. Unfortunately, people eating slice after slice of this so-called healthy brown bread thinking they are providing their body with heaps of valuable fibre, iron, B vitamins, etc, are just victims of this cruel marketing gimmick.

To tell whether a brown bread is really more nutritious, read the label.

If the first ingredient is wholewheat, this is a healthy food.

If it says 'bleached' or 'enriched' flour, or just wheat flour, it is just coloured white bread.

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