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pessimizertoday at 7:18 PM1 replyview on HN

> The super fine milling of the flour and removal of the bran makes it super tasty

I disagree on this. Speaking only about homemade, white bread is tasteless and wheat bran and germ adds taste.

White bread pretty much tastes exactly like the sugar you pour into it, and wheat is the sort of mix of sour and sweet that makes an addictive taste - why Kool-Aid and soda are largely citric acid(sour) + sugar(sweet) + [random other stuff]. You can drink a larger volume of sugar in a shorter time through drinking Kool-Aid than you can eat in marshmallows.

Wheat bread as some sort of health food is a scam, though. You get a few more micronutrients, but the problem is that its a ton of carbs. Brown foods being associated with health was just some weird advertising heuristic that got hammered into us our entire lives.

Wheat bread simply tastes better. All of the seeds and gritty parts that they add to some of them are honestly just more marketing to people who think that things that are more difficult to eat are intrinsically better for you. There are plenty of other places to get your fiber than your bread.


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tptacektoday at 8:41 PM

It tastes better to you. Good for you. White bread continues to exist as a category because it's hyperpalatable; in fact, it's one of the canonical HPFs.