HealthiFood: HealthiFood Cooking Tip; White Whole Wheat Flour

Monday, April 25, 2011

HealthiFood Cooking Tip; White Whole Wheat Flour

If you've taken a look at your local baking aisle in search of whole wheat flour, you may wonder what to think when you come across white whole wheat flour.

White whole wheat flour is a whole grain flour made of a lighter strain of wheat than your typical whole wheat flour. This lighter wheat looks "whiter" and has a sweeter flavor that makes it a lot more like white flour with all the benefits of whole wheat flour.

The only drawback to white whole wheat flour is it is more expensive than traditional whole wheat flours. If you are able to get it, you can easily replace all the all-purpose (or white) flour in a recipe with white whole wheat flour and your family will hardly tell the difference

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The HealthiFood Program: One to Four

1. Lower Fat
Most recipes can be adapted to cut the fat in half through substitution (of things like ground flax seed meal, applesauce, etc.) or elimination. Another easy way to lower fat is to cook with lower fat options, like low or nonfat milk products. Usually you can't tell the difference when it's cooked in, and you can save A LOT of calories and fat grams.

2. Better Fat Choices
We all know that nonfat isn't usually that good. Instead of eliminating all the fat and richness from recipes, the HealthiFood Program aims to replaces bad fats with better fats. HealthiFood uses olive oil, canola oil, ground flax seed meal, and naturally-occurring fats as much as possible to reduce hydrogenated and saturated fat content as much as possible.

3. High Fiber and Protein
Fiber is essential to good health, especially in the long run. The HealthiFood Program increases whole grains and fiber content by using whole wheat flour, oat flour, yellow corn meal, and ground flax seed meal. These substitutions also add protein.

4. More Vegetables
Using vegetable puree addition techniques of the Sneaky Chef and Jessica Seinfeld, the HealthiFood Program enriches recipes with vitamins and more fiber while lowering the calorie content per serving.

No Gimmicks

Sometimes the Nutrition Facts I provide may surprise you. This is because I usually post how much of a dish I actually eat. If you wanted tone-downed, unrealistic serving sizes to make all recipes look diet, this isn't the place. However, usually the serving size given will be for your whole meal, such as 1/9th of a 9x9 lasagna or 1/4th of a round of Rosemary bread. If you aren't in a habit of understanding serving sizes, start here and now, and definitely apply it to the packaged foods you eat.