Dark Rye is normally a 100% wholemeal Rye flour, ie: with nothing taken out, so if you want the maximum health and nutritional benefits from your bread then this is the best choice.
Light Rye is a rye flour which has had some of the wheatgerm removed. It makes a lighter coloured, less dense loaf, and can be used in combination with Dark Rye to tailor a loaf to your tastes. A light Rye flour does not have to be bleached and some of the wheatgerm is left in, so it's not nearly as devoid of nutritional value as a standard bleached white flour would be.
Pumpernickel is a dark-colored bread made out of rye flour.
Rye breads are made with a mixture of rye flour and wheat flour because rye flour by itself does not possess the chemical properties necessary to produce a leavened product
One cup of rye flour is one cup.
Rye flour in Tamil is known as ராய் மாவு (raai maavu).
Pumpernickel is a heavy, moderately sweet rye bread. It is traditionally made with coarsely ground rye, but normal rye can also be used. The ingredients include: Warm Water, Vegetable Oil, Molasses, All Purpose Flour, Rye Flour, Whole Wheat Flower, Bread Flour, Salt, Dry Milk Powder, Instant Coffee Powder, Cocoa Powder, Caraway Seed, and Active Dried Yeast.
If you actually meant "whole wheat" bread, then no. Rye is a different type of grain than wheat. If you meant "whole grain" bread, then the answer is "not necessarily." Check the label for the ingredients. Some rye breads contain white flour, for example, which is not a whole grain flour.
All grains are whole grains until they are milled and processed. Rye is a grain like wheat. Modern rye bread is mostly wheat flour with a slight addition of rye flour for flavor and texture.
Rye flour has a very distinctive flavor and less gluten than wheat flour (all-purpose flour). So it is not advisable to substitute it for all-purpose. Even when making good rye breads you do not use 100% rye flour.
That depends what you are baking.
NO
if its hole wheat probably
Light rye is made from the grain's endosperm