When you hear the term "whole" you might think it means healthy. Unfortunately, many times that word is used for not so healthy foods and ingredients. Don't rely just on the term whole to decide if a food is healthy.

1. Does
“Whole”
Food
Mean
Healthy
Food?
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2. Don’t be fooled by the term
“whole” food
 Real terms
 Whole grains
 Whole wheat
 Whole protein
 Terms that don’t mean much
 Wholesome
 Made with whole…
 Whole milk
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3. What does this mean?
Whole grains
Whole fruit
Whole milk
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4. 100% Whole Grains (including wheat)
 All parts of the grain
are used
 The bran
 The germ
 The endosperm
 May be wheat
 Or rye
 Or spelt
 Or millet
 Or corn
 Etc.
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5. Made with Whole Grains
 Whole grain could
be the main
ingredient
 It could be ONE of
the main ingredients
 It could be a minor
ingredients
 It could be a
miniscule ingredient
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6. Whole Fruit
 The whole fruit was
used as opposed
to
 Using just the juice
 Concentrated
 Fruit extract
 But…
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7. Whole fruit may also include…
Micron filtered water, corn syrup solids,
raspberry puree, sugar, raspberry kiwi juice
concentrate, natural flavor, elderberry juice
concentrate, pectin (a snack with whole fruit right in the name)
A “whole” lotta sugar…
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8. 6.75
teaspoons sugar!
½ cup of this whole fruit snack has

9. And whole milk?
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10. “whole” milk
 Most likely
 Homogenized
 Pasteurized
 Processed the
same as skim, 1%
and 2%
 Raw milk is
“whole”-y
unprocessed
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11. When choosing food, look at the
whole picture, not just the term
“whole.”
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