Brown Bread

**ORKSIE** · 05-06-2009, 07:38 PM

Is it ok in your opinion to give it to under 5's.
Just curious cos of something i heard today in passing.

**FizzysFriends** · 05-06-2009, 07:40 PM

I can't see why not, but Im guessing you have heard it isn't?

**youarewhatyoueat** · 05-06-2009, 07:45 PM

Yes but not much to under 1's or any great quantity to under 5's the same as brown rice and pasta,it's too much roughage and stops the absorbtion of iron
also white bread is generally fortified with folic acid and is richer in other minerals can't remember which of the top of my head. The recommendation has been this for ages, it's the same with fat in foods children should not be given low fat foods as they need more fat than us(unless of course they are obese).Can't remember all of the facts what is it you've been told?

**fionamal** · 05-06-2009, 07:45 PM

I use brown, wholemeal and white for all my kids and the youngest is 20months.

TheBTeam · 05-06-2009, 07:45 PM

I have never heard that you shouldn't, would just be careful of any of the nutty varieties, but wholemeal varieties i wouldn't have thought of as a problem in any way more than white bread.

**Monkey1** · 05-06-2009, 07:58 PM

on a nutrition course we were told that thick sliced white bread was the best for children

**ORKSIE** · 05-06-2009, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by caroline L

Yes but not much to under 1's or any great quantity to under 5's the same as brown rice and pasta,it's too much roughage and stops the absorbtion of iron
also white bread is generally fortified with folic acid and is richer in other minerals can't remember which of the top of my head. The recommendation has been this for ages, it's the same with fat in foods children should not be given low fat foods as they need more fat than us(unless of course they are obese).Can't remember all of the facts what is it you've been told?

Thanks caroline this is what i heard and i just wanted it confirming.
I heard it was too much roughage.

**ORKSIE** · 05-06-2009, 08:10 PM

Originally Posted by Monkey1

on a nutrition course we were told that thick sliced white bread was the best for children

Monkey, this is also what i have heard.
Thanks all.
new you would come up with the goods

**FizzysFriends** · 05-06-2009, 08:11 PM

My DD doesn't eat bread, is that bad?

**Pudding Girl** · 05-06-2009, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by Monkey1

on a nutrition course we were told that thick sliced white bread was the best for children

same here, younger children should'nt have unrefined things liek brown rice, pasta and bread as their bodies cannot cope with it, leaves them too full after eating a small amount and stops them having more of the stuff they should be having and taking in less calories.

**katickles** · 05-06-2009, 08:15 PM

Yeah I have always been told that for children white bread is better

**ORKSIE** · 05-06-2009, 08:17 PM

Oh My, Thanks guys!
I am learning things here i truly wasnt aware of EG Pasta,Rice.
Me thinks I need to do a food nutrition course

**loocyloo** · 05-06-2009, 10:59 PM

i make my own bread

so mine isn't fortified at all! i tend to make white, with a 1/8 of wholemeal flour! (sometimes a bit more)

we don't have brown pasta, as i can't bear it! no matter what i do with it, it tastes awful! (unless lasagne, and even then i do half and half with 'normal' lasgane sheets !)

i usually mix brown and white rice together.

x

**mushpea** · 06-06-2009, 08:44 AM

we mainily have white but they can have brown but not loads cause of the roughage as for the amount of fat, white bread actualy has more fat in it then brown bread.

**flora** · 06-06-2009, 08:50 AM

dd eats both but prefers wholemeal with seed on , she's 3.

Doesn't seem to affect how much she does or doesn't eat.

This has been around for years. Nutritionists call it museli malnutrition or something like that.

Parents think they are doing the best giving low fat, high fibre diets and they do more harm than good

As we have said kids requirements are totally diff from us wrinklies

**manjay** · 06-06-2009, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by flora

dd eats both but prefers wholemeal with seed on , she's 3.

Doesn't seem to affect how much she does or doesn't eat.

My son is the same. Given the choice he would choose wholemeal. I wouldn't stop him as I hate white bread, don't think it has any taste at all!

**PixiePetal** · 06-06-2009, 09:07 AM

My kids never liked brown/wholemeal bread. Chunky cut white bloomer is DD idea of heaven!!

DS,12, will now eat either. DD,15, only eats wholemeal when there is nothing else.

Mindees get a mixture of both, white pasta (unless wholmeal is open at the time) and white rice - no one in the family eats brown.

My old Gran, who died at the age of 96, said 'you need something to stick to your ribs!' Within reason I tend to agree, kids burn so much energy - moderation in all. Now need to prctice what I preach!!

**Alibali** · 06-06-2009, 09:52 AM

Now, here's the problem, if you only give them white bread when they are under 5, once you start trying to introduce wholemeal they've already developed a taste for white (be it bread, pasta or rice) it may prove tricky as they may not like it. I always make my sandwiches half wholemeal half white - best of both worlds and then they develop a taste for both.

**Spangles** · 06-06-2009, 10:59 AM

I've heard that under one's shouldn't have brown bread.

We have best of both in our house as my son won't accept any bread that doesn't look mostly white!

He's very picky but it suits me as I don't like brown bread toasted and it seems to go stale quicker than white.