A whole grain is the first ingredient on the product’s ingredient list (or second after water)
All other grains listed must be whole grain or enriched.
* Whole wheat, whole corn and/or brown rice are whole grain-rich.
Additional Tips
• Enriched grains must include the word “enriched” (Ex: Enriched wheat flour)
• Ignore wheat gluten
• Ignore bran and germ
– Unless one of these is the first ingredient, in which case the product is not creditable
– Bran and germ are not whole grains
– Ex: Oat bran cereal not creditable
• Ignore everything listed as less than 2% of the product
WHOLE GRAINS
- Cracked wheat
- Oat groats
- Crushed wheat
- Rolled oats
- Whole-wheat flour
- Brown rice
- Graham flour
- Brown rice flour
- Entire-wheat flour
- Wild rice
- Bromated whole-wheat flour
- Whole rye
- Whole durum wheat flour
- Teff
- Wheat berries
- Buckwheat
- Whole barley
- Sorghum
- Dehulled barley
- Quinoa
- Whole grain barley
- Millet
- Oatmeal
- Triticale
- Amarant
NON- WHOLE GRAINS
- Wheat
- Corn
- Rye
- Barley
- White rice
- Flour
- White flour
- Wheat flour
- All-purpose flour
- Stone ground wheat flour
- Unbleached flour
- Bromated flour
- Enriched bromated flour
- Enriched flour
- Instantized flour
- Phosphate flour
- Self-rising flour
- Self-rising wheat flour
- Bread Four
- Enriched self-rising flour
- Bread flour
- Cake flour
- Durum flour
- Ground corn
- Corn grits
- Hominy grits
- Hominy
- Farina
- Semolina
- Degerminated corn meal
- Enriched rice
- Rice flour
- Couscous
- Pot barley
- Scotch barley
- Pearled barley
Bottom Line on Breads/ Tortillas: Look for 100% whole wheat bread. The majority of whole grain-rich
breads on the market are going to be marked as 100% whole wheat on the package. If it is not clearly marked on
the front of the package, it is probably not whole grain-rich.
Bottom Line on Cereals: in most cases cereals look more complicated than they are because there are
MANY Vitamins and Minerals also listed. Review the first ingredient and IF it is a whole grain, review all other
grains in the product to determine if they are whole grains or enriched. Here is a link to approved cereals:
http://www.providerschoice.com/pdfs/...eal%20List.pdf
Bottom Line on Crackers: Most packages seem to say 100% whole wheat right on the front of the
package. Most whole grain crackers appear to only have one or two grains listed on the ingredient label. Brown
rice crackers do not look to be as clearly marked on the package and will require some label reading.
Here is a super helpful link for approved foods bought from Aldi's grocery stores
http://www.providerschoice.com/pdfs/...ng%20Guide.pdf