Cals/fat in bread

SnazzyTraveller
SnazzyTraveller Posts: 457 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Why do some kinds of bread have twice as many cals as others?

For example I used to eat white Safeway bread and recently switched to Dempster's multigrain. I think Safeway's has less than 100 cals for two slices, and the multigrain is 110 for ONE slice. Should I stick with the multigrain, and should I still eat two slices? An egg salad sandwich with just one piece of bread doesn't have the same appeal...

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  • Justice96
    Justice96 Posts: 29
    The reason why the healthier bread has more calories is because there are so much more nutrients in it like the grains and the whole wheat flour. White bread has lesser calories because it is refined which goes through your lips and down to your hips because all the nutrients are stripped out of it.
  • seasonalvoodoo
    seasonalvoodoo Posts: 380 Member
    Check out Ezekiel bread...great for you. It does have 80 cals a slice (but, hey, better than 110!)
  • Zichu
    Zichu Posts: 542 Member
    Could be the ingredients they use I guess? Just get bread that's smaller or maybe don't use certain spreads to reduce the amount of calories on the sandwich?

    I eat Warburtons or Hovis's Wholemeal Bread and it's about 50kcal per slice. I don't use to much spread, but I use more lean meat to sort of balance it out and give me more protein.
  • melaniecheeks
    melaniecheeks Posts: 6,349 Member
    I eat bread very rarely these days, so it's got to be worth it for me! So I'll accept the extra calories (and better nutrition and taste as well as fibre and protein) in something like Hovis seeded over a white loaf.

    Haven't found Ezekiel bread in UK
  • love22step
    love22step Posts: 1,103 Member
    My grocery store brand 100% whole wheat bread has 80 calories. My research says to stay away from white bread--it's high on the glycemic index and not helpful to your efforts to avoid heart problems and diabetes.
  • beckys19
    beckys19 Posts: 119 Member
    In addition to the more nutrients in the whole grain breads, in general whole wheat bread is more dense than your typical store-bought white. Check the nutrition label, it will probably give you the calculated weight per slice (which may or may not be accurate).

    If you can pick up bread at a bakery, you might be able to get a whole loaf and cut it yourself, for thinner slices (or see if they have a machine that does thinner slices). Or, if you have any inclination to bake at all, check out the local Goodwill or Salvation Army for a bread machine on the cheap and make your own for ultimate nutrition control. You can always set it to the dough cycle and bake in a rectangular pan in the oven. Plus, you could get various sizes/shapes of pans, for smaller loaf sizes if you wish.
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