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      Public Health Nutrition: "Consumer Confusion About Wholegrain Content and Healthfulness in Product Labels: A Discrete Choice Experiment and Comprehension Assessment"
    
      Whole Grains Council: "What Are the Health Benefits?"
    
      2020-2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
    
      Journal of the American Medical Association: "Trends in Dietary Carbohydrate, Protein, and Fat Intake and Diet Quality Among US Adults, 1999-2016"
    
      Whole Grain Council: "Whole Grain Stamps"
    
      Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: "Whole Grains"
    
      Mayo Clinic: "Whole grains: Hearty options for a healthy diet"
    




We'll admit, figuring out whether a product is whole grain or not is more difficult than it should be.

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      Public Health Nutrition: "Consumer Confusion About Wholegrain Content and Healthfulness in Product Labels: A Discrete Choice Experiment and Comprehension Assessment"
    
      Whole Grains Council: "What Are the Health Benefits?"
    
      2020-2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
    
      Journal of the American Medical Association: "Trends in Dietary Carbohydrate, Protein, and Fat Intake and Diet Quality Among US Adults, 1999-2016"
    
      Whole Grain Council: "Whole Grain Stamps"
    
      Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: "Whole Grains"
    
      Mayo Clinic: "Whole grains: Hearty options for a healthy diet"