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Default OROWHEAT breads contaminated with wheat gluten

Puester wrote:
> merryb wrote:
>> On Apr 3, 8:35 am, "jmcquown" > wrote:

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>>>
>>> Having said that, I used to buy Orowheat hamburger buns. In the
>>> 1980's everyone thought whole wheat this, whole wheat that, oh so
>>> much better for you! Until one day I actually read the label on
>>> the package. And it said it contained *wood chips*. Um... excuse
>>> me. I'm not Euell Gibbons. Don't care to eat a pine tree, thanks
>>> very much! They probably don't do that anymore but I found it put
>>> me a bit off on buying anything with the Orowheat (OroWHAT?!) name
>>> on the package! LOL

>
>
> Back in that day HIGH FIBER was the buzzword and wood pulp certainly
> fit the definition.
>

Apparently so... except I didn't sign up for that! LOL I just didn't want
to bake whole wheat hamburger buns from scratch. I was cooking with (and
still do) wheat germ. That'll work for fiber, save the trees!

Jill