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REFINED GRAIN

Enriched flour

What it is

Refined flour: bran and germ stripped out, so most of the fiber, B-vitamins and minerals leave with them. "Enriched" means they put a few back.

Why your biology objects

Stripping the bran and germ removes the fiber that would have slowed digestion — so what's left is fast glucose with little to buffer it, spiking blood sugar much like sugar itself. Enrichment replaces ~4 nutrients out of the dozens that left.

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