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You don’t make home made whole wheat bread, because you don’t have a wheat mill. You use flour, which is ultra-processed.

Your homemade bread is ultra-processed. But the process of turning wheat into flour is not magically unhealthy. It doesn’t work that way.

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Whole wheat is not ultra processed though?

It is processed but not ultra-processed. You can look into this by a simple search: “is flour ultra processed” and I got a number of results explaining the difference.

White flour though, generally is

That's what I meant, but you put it a bit more clearly.

I do know a lot of people who grind their own flour fresh - that is real homemade bread and not ultra processed, and agreed, not magically unhealthy.

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