All-Purpose Flour vs Bread Flour: The Healthier Choice

Where is more calories, protein, carbs - what is more healthy?

Marcin Piotrowicz, healthy lifestyle promoter

Bread flour vs All-purpose flour: Nutrition Comparison

per 100g	All-purpose flour	Bread flour
Calories	366	363
Carbohydrates	77.3 g	72.8 g
Fat	1.48 g	1.65 g
Protein	10.9 g	14.3 g
Water	9.83 g	10.7 g
Calcium	19 mg	19 mg
Iron	5.62 mg	5.55 mg
Magnessium	26.7 mg	35.9 mg
Phosphorus	160 mg	145 mg
Potassium	136 mg	127 mg
Sodium	2 mg	3 mg
Zink	160 mg	145 mg
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)	0.939 mg	0.953 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)	0.443 mg	0.436 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)	6.74 mg	6.56 mg
Vitaminium B6	0.066 mg	0.079 mg

More Calories in All-purpose flour

At first glance, you can see that in all-purpose flour is just a little more calories than in bread flour.

All-purpose flour has 366 kcal per 100g and bread flour 363 kcal per 100g so it is pretty easy to calculate that the difference is about 1%.

In all-purpose flour and in bread flour most calories came from carbs.

See tables below to compare all-purpose flour with bread flour in details.

All-purpose flour And Bread flour Nutrition Difference

Calories:
all-purpose flour - 1% more than bread flour
Carbohydrates:
all-purpose flour - 6% more than bread flour
Fat:
bread flour - 11% more than all-purpose flour
Protein:
bread flour - 31% more than all-purpose flour
Water:
bread flour - 9% more than all-purpose flour

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Less protein in all-purpose flour

It is aslo easy to see see that in all-purpose flour is less protein than in bread flour.

There is 14.3g per 100g of bread flour and 10.9g per 100g of all-purpose flour so using simple math we can see that difference is about 31%.

More carbohydrates in all-purpose flour

In all-purpose flour is more carbohydrates than in bread flour.

There is 72.8g/100g of carbohydrates in bread flour and 77.3g/100g in all-purpose flour so let me do the math for you again - difference is about 6%.

Less fat in all-purpose flour

In all-purpose flour is less fats than in bread flour.

The tables above show us that there is 1.65g/100g of fats in bread flour and 1.48g/100g in all-purpose flour. In this case difference is about 11%.