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by Wendy Jane » Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:28 pm
Jeff: We have all your DVD's. Great listening. Anyway you said if the label says "wheat flour" it's NOT whole wheat flour. The label must say "whole wheat flour" and be spelled that way. How is this possible? Am I missing something? Is "wheat flour" nothing more than "white flour" and if so how can they get away with doing that? Thanks.
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by JeffN » Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:50 pm
Legal loopholes
It’s spelled out at the FDA site
To be a whole grain, the grain must have one of these 5 qualifiers before it, Whole, Cracked, Stone Ground, Rolled or Sprouted.
The only exception is Brown Rice, it can just say Brown Rice
Some small companies and local businesses dpending on size, don’t always have to meet these guidelines
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