How would you say wheat bread?

Question

Hola! If I wanted to say: I need to go to the supermarket to buy wheat bread would I say:

Necesito ir al supermercado comprar pan del trigo.

OR

Necesito ir al supermercado comprar pan de trigo.

Thank you!!

.. para comprar.. - annierats, Aug 10, 2012

Answer 1

Hi and welcome to the forum.

The only term I've ever heard is "pan integral."

Tengo que ir al supermercado para comprar pan integral.

In Spain I would just go to the bakers , or supermarket for' pan'' that would be wheatbread. - annierats, Aug 10, 2012

Thanks for adding this to my vocabulary - yahvey_hoffman, Aug 11, 2012

Answer 2

In most of Europe: Pan. or Pan de trigo. Pan integral is wholewheat bread.
El pan integral está compuesto de harina de trigo no refinada (posee más salvado). Se denomina integral al pan que posee una gran cantidad de fibra dietética ( thank Wikipedia, not me )

We assume bread to be made of wheat, unless otherwise stated. In Scandinavia we use ' bröd for ryebreads, however and especially ask for wheat , vetebröd, if we want that.

I'm going to go ahead, and thank you too.. - yahvey_hoffman, Aug 11, 2012

Answer 3

What is wheat bread? Bread, in English, is by default assumed to be made of (wheat) flour. Flour, in English, is assumed to made of wheat. Where this is not the case we have cornflour (that's an ambiguous one), rye flour, rice four, corn bread, rye bread, black bread (made of black, naturally) etc....

This is the same in spanish, wheat bread is bread is pan. Pan integral is the term for both brown and wholemeal bread as far as I have seen.

I just wanted to be more specific on the type of bread I was talking about. For instance you can say: white bread, sourdough bread, potato bread, etc. :) - 00fd5b5c, Aug 11, 2012

I'm not being pedantic, I really don´t know what wheat bread is :-). White, brown, and wholemeal breads are all breads made of wheat flours. I've only heard the grain (or tuberous root) mentioned when it is not wheat, as per your examples. - afowen, Aug 11, 2012

Answer 4

Necesito ir al supermercado a comprar pan de trigo /o/ pan integral.

Gracias por tu ayuda! - 00fd5b5c, Aug 10, 2012

Thank you this was very helpful! - 00fd5b5c, Aug 11, 2012