> food," despite the fact that whole grains are often consumed in the form
> of manufactured products like breads, bagels, muffins, crackers, etc.

Hi Philip

These are not  "whole grains" in most cases, though. In all commercial 
flours the germ has been milled out to leave a far less nutritious product. 
The reason for doing this is that the oils in wheat germ will go rancid 
*very* quickly and would be toxic to the human system. Therefore flour 
producers have to remove it (by law). So all of these products are not made 
from complete wheat berries. I used to make bread a couple of years ago, and 
ended up buying a flour mill to grind my own because of this.

Marilyn