text: i have a question about brown bread? ok, so everyone says brown bread is good for you, its healthy for your heart....so why does it have so many calories in it?? brown bread is made from flour with out any of the outer casing of the wheat/barley/oats grains scrubbed off.  that is what makes it tan colored.  some brown bread is made with molasses and regualr white flour to fool us.  not fooled.  read the labels to see if it says "whole grain wheat flour" the calories are not bad for you.  all food has calories.  you need calories to burn to stay alive.  what is healthy about brown bread, the good kind, is that those little husky bits in the flour are nourishing and good for your intestinal tract.  help you stay 'regular' if you get my meaning.  the whiteness of white  bread is achieved by removing all those husky bits of the wheat grain and then, perish the thought, they use clorox stuff to make it white and it will never rot!!  you eat the clorox too and therefore unbleached flour is better and healthier to eat.