Health & Nutrition

Bread - A nutritious, healthy food

Welcome to the Flour Advisory Bureau’s health and nutrition pages: a one-stop shop for everything you ever needed to know about the nutritional value and health benefits of bread and flour.

Find out more about the wide range of nutrients that bread contains and why your body needs them. Did you know that bread provides almost 20% of our calcium intake, can help to prevent anaemia in women and that pregnant mothers should be eating bread to help reduce the risk of neural tube defects in babies? Surprised? Bread is after all a low fat food packed with vitamins and minerals including calcium, iron, folic acid and B-vitamins.

Alternatively, if you would like to find out more about the health benefits of bread and how it can play an important role in weight management and heart health, or indeed more information about bread’s part in conditions such as diabetes, coeliac disease and IBS then please see our bread and health pages.

A new report published by the British Nutrition Foundation which looks behind the claims on bloating can now be downloaded: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-3010.2011.01943.x/abstract

If there is anything you are not sure about or would like some additional information then you can call us on 020 7493 2521 or email fab@nabim.org.uk.