The ingredients for pancakes include flour, eggs, milk, sugar, and a leaving agent, such as baking soda, which gives pancakes their fluff. There are also vegan pancake recipes that include egg and milk substitutes, and gluten-free flour alternatives can also be used to make gluten-free pancakes. All of these breakfast options have one thing in common: sugar! The waffles are pretty much the same. Yet they are both very common breakfast foods. As a result, pancakes and waffles are full of sugar because we often don't eat them plain. Who does? We load them up with sugary syrups and crispy bacon that's high in saturated fat and salt, which only adds calories, without adding much to their nutritional value. The flour often used for both is white flour, which has been processed to remove all of the beneficial B vitamins and whole grains.
