Today's million dollar question: What makes a whole grain a whole grain?
If you are like most Americans, your answer probably included saying that whole grain is brown, only wheat, only fiber, only the bran, the same as multi-grain, tastes bad and is never sweet. Hopefully if you have eaten at Great Harvest, you didn't include the last two in your answer.
The truth is every grain starts out as a whole grain. Grains have three parts: the bran, the germ and the endosperm. If after processing (milling, grinding, etc.) all three parts are still there, it is a whole grain. If any parts are removed, like removing the bran and germ for white flour, it can't be a whole grain.
Did you know that whole wheat is the same as whole grain? Whole wheat just specifies which type of grain is the whole grain. At Great Harvest, all of our whole wheat products are made from our daily fresh ground whole wheat flour - nothing is added and nothing is removed!
What's your favorite whole grain food? We'd love to hear.
