Mike Ficci

Difference Between Three Types of Bread

Which is the healthiest bread, White, Whole Wheat, or Whole Grain?  I believe that Whole Grain is the healthiest of the three choices.  Deciding which bread would be healthier is important if you want to eat healthy, since bread is a popular food product in everyday life.  All three choices have many similarities but slight differences.

Name of Product	Whole Grain	Whole Wheat	White
Serving Size	1 slice	1 slice	2 slices
Total Calories (kcal)	100	100	130
Total Fat (g)	2g	1.5g	2.5
Total Carbohydrates (g)	20g	20g	23g

The total calories in White Bread were clearly more than the Whole Grain and Whole Wheat.  White Bread was higher in every row shown above, which left the Whole Grain and Wheat to be compared.  The total fat was higher in the Whole Grain by a slight margin of .5g.  Also, not shown in the table, Whole Grain had 115mg of sodium while the Whole Wheat only had 105mg of sodium.  In result, the Whole Wheat would be healthier out of the three choices by slight margins when compared to the Whole Grain and larger margins when compared to the White Bread.

The serving sizes for both the Whole Grain and Whole Wheat was 1 slice, and the White was 2 slices.  The serving sizes on the labels were not realistic.  No one at one time is going to eat only 1 slice of bread, most people use bread to make sandwiches which need 2 slices.  The White Bread food label was realistic, as that one said the serving size was 2 slices which is more realistic then 1 slice per serving.  Both Whole Grain and Wheat had 1 slice each which didn’t alter the values of nutrition, but the White bread had a serving size of 2 slices which altered there nutritional value because there were more slices.  Since the serving size was 1 slice for the Grain and Wheat, it did not make a difference in values and how they compared, but the White had 2 slices which caused that value to be higher and more than the other two because it had more to accommodate for.