We love Country Harvest 14 Grain.
Meaty (if I can use that term), nutty, moist, and very tasty.
Sugars - 2g
No high-fructose corn syrup... no artificial sweeteners.
Manufacturers are permitted to deceive us on their food labeling. Unless a consumer is diabetic or researches it in detail, it may not be as important, but if someone is trying to lose weight, it is a big factor. Example:
"Country Harvest" bread does have only 2 gms sugar. But what they're not required to tell you is that they are only referring to
added sugar, actual table sugar -
not the total sugar which is included in the carbohydrates. On that bread, each slice actually has 18 gms sugar, not 2 gms. They are required to list that on the "Carbohydrate" part of the label & they hope you don't know that the carbohydrates are part of the sugar, since both carbs and actual sugar are quickly converted to glucose as soon as you eat it.
If someone is trying to lose weight, thinking they're only getting 2 gms sugar per slice of that bread, they will be frustrated because a typical sandwich with that bread will have 36 gms of sugar
before anything is put in the sandwich. Compare it to a can of soft drink which has 40 gms.
Add up that sandwich & a drink & you have 76 gms sugar - just the bread & the drink.
Why is that important? It's the excess sugar that causes weight gain & prevents weight loss. The more sugar we eat, the more insulin is produced to push the sugar into muscle cells for energy. Insulin is a fat-storage hormone, so the more we require, the more fat we store.
And, there is only so much exercise & activity we can do when we're older, so if we eat that way, we end up with a lot of excess sugar we won't use. It is then converted to fat for storage when muscle cells are filled to capacity.
Since I love bread, one of the most depressing things I had to learn was that bread is a highly-processed food that will quickly spike blood sugar, which also means a spike in insulin production which means a spike in fat storage. For years, I couldn't lose weight because I didn't have that information; I just focused on fat & calories.