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DCHP-3 (Apr 2025)
adj. — Food & Drink
made with part of the whole grain (usually wheat, sometimes mixed with rye).
Type: 5. Frequency — Breads and pastas are made from grain that is called brown in Canada and usually whole wheat in the US. Other than the Boston type of brown bread that is sweetened with molasses, Canadian brown bread is not sweet and often offered as a choice between white, brown or sourdough. The term is Canadian by virtue of frequency (see Chart 1 under brown bread, where the difference between Canada and the US is a factor or 10).
See: brown bread
Quotations
1940
Bread in itself, whether brown or white or "vitaminized," is not of course a complete food. Neither are eggs or milk or fruit.
1942
CEREALS AND BREADS- one serving of a whole grain cereal and four to six slices of Canada Approved Bread, brown or white.
1958
"We open a brown loaf, and it becomes stale before it is all used. The customers don't ask for it."
1994
Beef and vegetable soup was a hearty version that had lots of vegetables and a ham sandwich was made from fresh bread (brown or white) accompanied by tomatoes, lettuce, mayo or mustard plus a big dill pickle and a cantelope slice.
2011
In this case, brown is better for you. But it's hard to know that after reading their respective nutrition labels. Both types of pasta have eight grams of fibre a serving.
2018
Be careful! Words such as "multigrain," "stone ground," "whole wheat," “enriched,” "bran" or "brown" do not mean the same thing as whole grain.