Why are certain foods (bread, rice, eggs) healthier when brown than white?
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Whole grains. Also they’re not messed with. Brown grain in its natural form needs to be processed and bleached to become whitened, which means that it loses a lot of its nutritional value such as fibre.
If you were following a full clean eating diet you could eat most of the unprocessed brown foods like brown sugar for instance. It’s bleached through bone char (so white sugar is not technically vegan friendly) but not the white.
Pure brown wild rice is better than white as it contains more fibre and magnesium.
The egg thing is a myth though.
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Brown eggs are not healthier than white ones. They’re also not necessarily organic, nor are all white eggs not organic. It’s just different breeds of chicken.
Brown rice and brown bread (made from brown flour) are whole-grain. The white versions have been processed to only use the starchy interior of the grain. This makes them easier to process and store (whole grains contain oils which can go rancid), and in the past they were often considered more pleasant to eat, but you lose a whole lot of vitamins and minerals in the process.
Brown sugar contains some remnants of the sugarcane while white sugar has been purified to pure sucrose. Afaik the remnants in brown sugar don’t have any health benefit, but some people like the taste.
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