{"id":3523,"date":"2010-06-01T06:05:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T04:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:25:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:25:59","slug":"whole-grain-not-the-whole-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/whole-grain-not-the-whole-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"“Whole Grain” Not the Whole Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who hasn’t seen all the packages in the grocery store, emblazoned with the legend “Made With Whole Grains!” (or words to this effect). While I suppose it’s better than nothing, the fact remains that the words “whole grain” don’t necessarily translate to “healthy.” As Los Angeles Times reporter Jeannine Stein notes<\/a>, often the addition of whole grains only makes an unhealthy product a little less unhealthy.<\/p>\n

Whole grains have been the darlings of the food industry ever since the government’s 2005 food pyramid recommended we eat more of them \u2014 at least 3 ounces per day. These days, you’ll find them in a wide array of products, some expected, some not: breakfast cereals, crackers, frozen dinners and snack chips. Odwalla has a new smoothie drink that contains a full serving of whole grains. The source: whole-grain brown rice.<\/p>\n

But \u2014 let’s get real. Just because toaster pastries, say, have whole grains doesn’t automatically make them a nourishing choice. One whole-grain chocolate fudge Pop-Tarts pastry has 190 calories per serving, 2 grams of saturated fat and 14 grams of sugar.<\/p>\n

“Adding whole grains to Pop-Tarts is not going to take the sugar out,” says Bonnie Jortberg, a senior instructor in the department of family medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver. “Even if Pop-Tarts contain whole grains, I would put them on a list of foods to eat less often \u2026 the actual real nutrient value is pretty low.”<\/p>\n

And the Wholly Grains smoothie from Odwalla has 54 grams of sugar in a 16-ounce bottle, almost 13 teaspoons of sugar.<\/p>\n

“Buyer beware,” Jortberg says. “Not everything is as advertised.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In truth, many “whole grain” products are far from 100% whole grain. As always, to see the whole truth, you need to turn the package\/box\/container over, and look at the list of ingredients and the nutrition label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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