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“Whole wheat?” – maybe

What is sold as “whole wheat” bread may not have any whole wheat. At least this is what Hoy is reporting in Sunday’s edition. The National Director of Systems and Rules (the Dominican weights and measures control office) DIGENOR, revealed that there is a fake whole wheat bread on the market and that very few bakeries bake real whole wheat bread. According to their report, DIGENOR says that the agency is working on a set of rules that will govern the bakeries that say they are making whole wheat bread. According to DIGENOR head Julio Santana de Leon, what the bakeries are doing is using “saved bread or pseudo-whole wheat”, even adding this to white flour. According to the DIGENOR analysis, there is no wheat germ or minerals in this sort of bread.