Flour help
#170936 - 04/18/05 02:09 PM
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tpet83
Reged: 04/18/05
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When looking for items made with just white flour as opposed to whole wheat flour. What does it mean when the ingreadients say "enriched", "bleached", "unbleached" and/or "bleached enriched" wheat flour?!?!? And what the heck is "durum semolina flour" in pasta noodles???H E L P!
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Enriched means they put nutrition in it (vitamins, etc)
Bleached means they bleached it.
Unbleached means it hasn't been bleached (this is the kind you want to use when you buy flour to bake with)
Durum semolina flour is from wheat flour and is fine for pasta. (You want to avoid WHOLE wheat pasta)
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Basically, enriched, bleached, and unbleached are all different processes applied to WHITE flour, and therefore all of those options are safe.  I don't know exactly what durum semolina is off the top of my head, but I do know it's safe as well.
Basically, what you want to avoid is WHOLE wheat flour. Sometimes, on fancier baked products, you'll see things like "stone-ground wheat flour"... I'd stay away from those. Typically, the coarser-processed flours are whole wheat. You'll also want to avoid "bran" in your breads, assuming you're buying breads to use as your soluble fiber base and not to incorporate insolubles back into your diet.
Hope that helps a little!
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This may sound either silly or repetitive, but I just want to make sure I'm reading this information correctly. Basically, it is okay to eat "wheat" flour, such as is found in white bread, it's just not okay to eat "whole wheat" flour. Is that correct? Just want to make sure I'm not limiting myself too much, because when I'm shopping and see something has wheat flour as one of its ingredients, I get a bit nervous...which hopefully is for nothing!
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"Wheat" flour is just that - flour made from wheat, and typically, they mean white flour when they say that. "Whole wheat" is the one to watch out for.
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What it if says enriched wheat flour? Are you thinking as long as it is not only wheat flour is fine.
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Yes, as long as it is "wheat flour" even if enriched it should be okay, just don't buy it if it says "whole wheat" on ANYTHING! Whole wheat causes lot's of IBS problems as it's the outside husk that is full of insoluable fibre.
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Thank you so much! That really helps. Now I have another question: I noticed in another message that oat bran is also a bad thing. I have some Quaker hot Oat Bran cereal that has 3 g of IF and 3 g of SF. Is this something I should eat or avoid? Also, in general, is oat bran, or just plain bran, something to avoid as a trigger food?
Thanks!
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I just wanted to add that I eat Whole Wheat bread all the time with no problems. Some people can tolerate the wheat and it is good for fiber. You just have to see what works for you.
Sourdough is another good choice if you are looking for alternatives!
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IF is very necessary to us, just as SF is, and IF should be eaten as much as possible... just eaten safely, with plenty of SF to cushion it.
If you're just starting to try to stabilize, you might want to back off the oat bran for now, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't go back to eating it (or continue eating it, if you're past the "breaking the cycle" part of the diet). I just mentioned the bran in reference to breads because most people do use bread as one of their "purely SF" options... and in that case, you wouldn't want bran in it.
Hope that helps!
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