Does mold grow faster white bread wheat bread or multi-grain bread?

Mould Growth Speed: -

Fastest --- Wheat/brown bread.

second fastest --- multi grain bread

slowest --- White bread

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There is no way that anyone can tell you which will mold the fastest since we don't know all the variables, like moisture, the formulation of the bread or the conditions under which they were produced. In the U.S., all breads could have preservatives. And white bread is a wheat bread.

Given that white flour is 'cleaned up' - bran and germ removed - it would seem logical that those exterior parts of the grain would carry more mold and that white flour would then naturally contain less mold than a whole grain flour. But if the white flour is milled and packaged in a facility where sanitation is poorly controlled or the grain was of poor quality, the mold might not be greatly reduced.

This could be a good topic for a science project, but you still would not know the amount of preservatives used, the mold load from the environment or ingredients, or if the ingredients are even all declared.

First answer by Platinumhimani. Last edit by SuzziQ. Contributor trust: 121 [recommend contributor]. Question popularity: 3 [recommend question]