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I'm joining in on the confusion about wheat/whole wheat/whole grain,etc., etc...Okay, so whole wheat bread or other is bad, but I just got this Oatmeal bread that lists the first ingredient as "unbromated, unbleached enriched wheat flour"...is that okay b/c it doesn't have the words whole and wheat together?
Basically, yes, you're absolutely right. Whole grains are IF so they should be eaten carefully and cannot serve as your soluble fiber base. Anytime you see "whole wheat" you're looking at IF. I'm not sure what "unbromated" means, but "unbleached" is fine. It may even be better, because it should mean fewer chemicals were used to process the flour.
Before going to this sight, I had a bowl of this new Special K protein plus which has wheat bran as the first ingredient but then whole grain wheat as another ingredient. I had a bad IBS-D day but it could have been the milk too (didn't know Lactaid was off limits).
I'm sure the milk didn't help, but the cereal is IF, too. What makes whole grains whole is that the bran and the germ are included. Unwhole grains have the bran and usually the germ removed. So with "wheat bran" as the first ingredient, you're getting the toughest IF in the grain.
Please clear up....I'm thinking whole oat is okay and then the word wheat by itself is okay???
This is a little tricky. Oatmeal is whole oats and Heather lists it as a safe soluble fiber. However, some people on the Boards find that oatmeal just doesn't sit right - I'm one of them. So whole oats in something is worth a try as a soluble fiber base, but cautiously. And just "wheat" - like "wheat flour" is soluble, but "whole wheat" or "wheat bran" means IF so it cannot serve as your SF base.
AaaaHHH! Also, what is the best recommended sandwhich bread to buy (general supermarket please)...so that I can use it for simple sandwhiches. thanks!!!
I haven't found a regular supermarket bread that doesn't contain dairy or HFCS or eggs or something I want to avoid. I can buy white bread with none of these at Whole Foods, but right now I'm eating Calandra's sliced Panella bread as my sandwich and toast bread. I find it at Kings. If you can't find Calandra's, a lot of stores have bakeries now, so check out their bakery bread ingredients to be sure there's nothing to avoid. They make great - if sometimes oddly shaped - sandwiches.

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