Source: Elizabeth Licata, TheKitchn.com, November 17, 2017
The idea that whole-grain bread is better for you than white bread has been a nearly universally accepted bit of nutrition advice for decades.
But now that tenet is being called into question by the team behind Modernist Bread: The Art and Science. Research for that book involved four years of deep analysis by Nathan Myhrvold and Chef Francisco Migoya and a team of historians, scientists, grain experts, and bakers. After all that, Myhrvold told Bon Appetit that there’s no real evidence that whole-wheat bread is intrinsically healthier than white.
