The difference between whole-grain bread, enriched bread and unenriched bread.
Whole-grain bread is more nutritious than other breads, even enriched bread. For iron, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and folate, enriched bread provides about the same quantities as whole-grain bread and significantly more than unenriched bread. For fibre and the other nutrients (both those shown here and those not shown), enriched bread provides less than whole-grain bread.
With this graph you can see exactly what nutrients and how much of them is in which bread.
Red indicating Whole-Grain products
Green indicating Enriched products
Blue indicating Refined foods.
When you are shopping for grain products, you will find them described as refined, enriched, or whole grain. These terms refer to the milling process and the making of grain products, and they have different nutrition implications.
Refined foods may have lost many nutrients during processing.
Refined: the process by which the coarse parts of a food are removed. When wheat is refined into flour, the bran, germ, and husk are removed, leaving only the endosperm.
Enriched products may have had some nutrients added back.
Enriched: the addition to a food of nutrients that were lost during processing so that the food will meet a specified standard.
Whole-grain products may be rich in fibre and all the nutrients found in the original grain.
Whole-grain products support good health and should be eaten regularly.
Whole-grain: a grain milled in its entirety (all but the husk), not refined.
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