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Sliced bread you buy in the store seems different from the bread you make at home, even whole wheat bread, based on the ingredient list.

Not sure “slicing and bagging” is actually what would qualify it as ultraprocessed, but also not sure if those additional ingredients added actually are unhealthy.

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Probably not unhealthy but also not great compared to the alternative.

In practice I find that white bread seems to lack whatever it is that makes me feel full. I can easily eat 2-4x the calories in white bread than I could eat from standard whole wheat baked bread.

I can eat a massive number of calories of basic homemade white bread, it’s delicious but not ultraprocessed.

I guess white bread, white rice etc are all fairly modern too.

> whatever it is

It's fiber

Carbs themselves make most people hungrier, because humans evolved an instinct to load up on fruit calories during the limited window that fruit was in season, so that they could make it through the subsequent winter when food was more scarce.

Probably also has to do with the fact that bread has so little actual nutrition. The body isn't getting what it needs, so it prompts you to eat more.

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