Why No Whole Wheat? 

 Some people think that whole wheat flour is somehow "more natural" and therefore more appropriate for prosphora. Nothing can be further from the truth, and whole wheat flour should be avoided unless there is no other option. 
 

First, whole wheat flour was never used in the early Church. White flour was always used, since it was more expensive than the brown variety and the loaf was quite literally a sacrifice for those who provided it. 

Second, whole wheat flour is merely the same grain as the white, except with the outer shell ground in with the kernel. This is symbolic of the death and resurrection. 

Third, white flour, as it raises, makes a more perfect texture similar to when Christ rose from the grave, His Body was made perfected without flaws. 

Fourth, white flour makes a soft crust that is easily broken away like the stone at the Holy Sepulcher. The use of wheat flour is frowned on because it doesn't have the same symbolic meaning.