Which is healthier - slice of bread, pitta bread or tortilla wrap?

[SexyGreyFox]

I've been told to replace my bread with pitta or tortilla and the weight should drop off me but looking at the packets shows that there is way more calories than bread.

Discuss please.

 

[Syph]

White or brown/wholegrain?

 

[Tefal]

pitta

 

[Syph]

Well if it's white, there's not much in it. If it's two slices of bread, I'd say worse than 1 pitta stuffed with the same you'd have in the sarnie. Brown better than white.

 

[Jokester]

Is it per 100g or slice?

 

[Burnsy2023]

I would have thought the difference in calories would be negligible.

Burnsy

 

[lumpeh]

Pittas have more salt? or at least it seems that way with the wholemeal ones i've had.

 

[Voltar]

temptation resisted: if you can keep off bread then

I'd say tortilla! Just to be different.

 

[dowie]

get some proper brown bread down your neck - that foreign rubbish doesn't compare

 

[Azagoth]

Pita bread stuffed with salad.

 

[Nullvoid]

I've been told to replace my bread with pitta or tortilla and the weight should drop off me but looking at the packets shows that there is way more calories than bread.

Discuss please.

I think he is recommending you eat them because they are unleavened, not because of a lower calorific content. I can't remember why unleavened breads are meant to be healthier though.

 

[Lysander]

I've been told to replace my bread with pitta or tortilla and the weight should drop off me but looking at the packets shows that there is way more calories than bread.

Discuss please.

Just by changing this the weight will drop off.. doubt that. Was it a nutritionist/dietician who told you this?

 

[Rainmaker]

Wholemeal better than white.

Fixed "Brown" bread is just white bread dyed brown in a lot of cases lol Wholemeal 4tw Tortillas for me every time.

 

[daz]

Corn tortilla > flour tortilla

 

[Rich1988]

pitta breads are really pretty filling, if you were to have one instead of two slices of bread the difference would be about 10 up to 30 calories depending on the thickness of bread. saying that you dont use butter in a pitta generally so that could also reduce the calories.

 

[Azagoth]

Corn tortilla > flour tortilla

Especially when used to dip into grits. Corn heaven.

 

[Voltar]

Corn tortilla > flour tortilla

We have a WINNER!!!!111!1

Great minds daz, great minds.

Corn Tortilla get the versatility and tasty vote!




EDIT: Azagoth do you mean Polenta?

 

[Azagoth]

EDIT: Azagoth do you mean Polenta?

It's similar, but so much more tasty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grits

 

[Cupra]

Wholemeal bread often has more calories than the white bread from the same company

 

[Berserker]

In the case of bread, home made > *. I just wish I could take my own advice (I have a breadmaker but never find time to put it to use).