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Bruce wrote:
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> On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 06:49:24 -0400, Gary > wrote:
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> >Bruce wrote:
> >>
> >> Ingredients
> >> ... Bleached Wheat Flour ...

> >
> >> I don't know what kind of idiot bleaches wheat, but other than that
> >> not bad.

> >
> >Sounds to me like a fancier way to describe plain old white
> >flour. (?)

>
> I think the word 'bleached' suggests a processing step.


I agree with you. Plain old wheat flour will be
yellowish/brownish in color. Bleaching that to white is the extra
processing step. Why they do that, I have no idea. Maybe to make
it more visually appealing?

Plain flour here is always bleached and very white.