Can I use wholemeal flour in cakes and biscuits

Binxy

Well I guess I just answered it myself.

No further responses necessary - feel free to discuss whatever you like now.

Swan_2

just catching up here ...

I certainly didn't mean to take this thread off-topic, my apologies

I misunderstood MimiJane's posting & mistakenly thought she meant that that white flour had 'secret' added sugar

I do know about & understand how carbohydrates both complex & simple are converted to sugar & am very impressed by Debt_Free_Chick's succinct & eloquent explanation

from what I've seen here, there are still a lot of replies that should be very helpful to the OP, so hopefully not too much harm done

ariba10

MimiJane wrote:

My partners diet has prompted me to do a lot of research. Just for the record, artificial sugars (e.g. Aspartame) are even worse for you and, during the early stages of testing, this stuff produced tumours in mice and the wide opinion of experts is that it should never have been made "legal" ... it's thought to play a big part in cancer in humans. For years I been happily consuming Weight Watchers products, oblivious that this stuff is so bad for you.

Do not belive half of what you read about artificial sugar.

We do not use it at all but I think you will find that almost all of these tests are carried out by the sugar industry themselves,(vested interest comes to mind).

I read a report some time ago that you would have to eat about 5 kilo's a day for months for any ill effect.

ze2gal

hi ive managed to find a fruitcake recipe on globebuster.com regards christina

BitterAndTwisted

Bumping a six year-old thread just to give a gratuitous mention of some crummy website? I smell spammy, spam, spam. Be off with you!