Dear Editor,
There are many bakeries making whole wheat bread but are they making real whole wheat bread?
Someone had said on a TV programme that some makers of whole wheat bread are making ordinary bread and are colouring the bread to let it appear like whole wheat and naming it on the plastic bag `whole wheat bread’ but the bread is not really whole wheat.
There is need for the Government Analyst Department to analyse all the whole wheat bread being made by the various bakeries and to have the results published in the papers so that the people in this country would be aware as to what they are eating i.e. which bread is real whole wheat and as to what percentage whole wheat as against others. When I was in Trinidad I bought a whole wheat bread that was real whole wheat bread.
The outside of the bread was covered with whole oats and flaxseeds. The bread was heavy and hard unlike Guyana’s whole wheat bread. There were grains in the bread and the bread was very tasty.
The Guyana whole wheat bread on the other hand was light in weight, was soft, it could be folded with ease and put away in your pocket unlike the Trinidad bread and the price was affordable.
Editor, why can’t we strive to improve the quality of the things we produce for the people in this nation so that we would have more healthy people, and if we have healthy people we would have more production.
On the other hand if we have less healthy people we would have to purchase more drugs and build bigger and more hospitals and have less production.
So I would request that government pay some more attention to the quality of the items produced for the people of this nation.
Yours faithfully,
J. Kadaru
