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<blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 382507" data-attributes="member: 55568"><p>It depends on which Hovis wholemeal loaf but the ingredients for the standard Hovis wholemeal are:</p><p></p><p>Wholemeal Flour (milled from 100% British Wheat), Water, Caramelised Sugar, Yeast, Salt, Fermented Wheat Flour, Vegetable Fat, Wheat Protein, Emulsifiers: E472e, E471 (made from Vegetable Oils); Soya Flour, Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid</p><p>(Vitamin C).</p><p></p><p>The recipe contains 62% wholegrains from the wholemeal flour but not all the loaf is made from wholemeal flour.</p><p></p><p>A problem in the UK is that wholemeal and wholegrain do not have legal definitions so if 62% of the flour contains wholegrains, the remaining need not. The other thing they are not required to tell you is how much wheat flour they use in the loaf. As you can see, you have got many other things including caramelised sugar - to make it brown and rise more easily and even soya flour so you can't even be sure a wholemeal bread is 100% wheat flour let alone the product of wholegrains. 100% British Wheat just means whatever wheat they did use came from Britain, not that everything in the loaf is wheat. One supermarket loaf describes as wholegrain only contained 6% wholegrains.</p><p></p><p>When asked how much soya flour was used in a loaf described as wholemeal, Hovis replied, ‘<em>The recipes we use in our Hovis breads are confidential.’</em> </p><p></p><p>Have a look at: <a href="http://www.sustainweb.org/news/feb13_real_bread_wholegrain_truth/" target="_blank">http://www.sustainweb.org/news/feb13_re ... ain_truth/</a> which you can download.</p><p></p><p><em>"For those, then, who are determined to eat bread made from authentic 100 per cent wholemeal…there is precious little alternative but to buy the flour and bake it themselves."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yorksman, post: 382507, member: 55568"] It depends on which Hovis wholemeal loaf but the ingredients for the standard Hovis wholemeal are: Wholemeal Flour (milled from 100% British Wheat), Water, Caramelised Sugar, Yeast, Salt, Fermented Wheat Flour, Vegetable Fat, Wheat Protein, Emulsifiers: E472e, E471 (made from Vegetable Oils); Soya Flour, Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C). The recipe contains 62% wholegrains from the wholemeal flour but not all the loaf is made from wholemeal flour. A problem in the UK is that wholemeal and wholegrain do not have legal definitions so if 62% of the flour contains wholegrains, the remaining need not. The other thing they are not required to tell you is how much wheat flour they use in the loaf. As you can see, you have got many other things including caramelised sugar - to make it brown and rise more easily and even soya flour so you can't even be sure a wholemeal bread is 100% wheat flour let alone the product of wholegrains. 100% British Wheat just means whatever wheat they did use came from Britain, not that everything in the loaf is wheat. One supermarket loaf describes as wholegrain only contained 6% wholegrains. When asked how much soya flour was used in a loaf described as wholemeal, Hovis replied, ‘[i]The recipes we use in our Hovis breads are confidential.’[/i] Have a look at: [url=http://www.sustainweb.org/news/feb13_real_bread_wholegrain_truth/]http://www.sustainweb.org/news/feb13_re ... ain_truth/[/url] which you can download. [i]"For those, then, who are determined to eat bread made from authentic 100 per cent wholemeal…there is precious little alternative but to buy the flour and bake it themselves."[/i] [/QUOTE]
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