What's in your bread?

Do you know what is in your bread?

One of the challenges for this week was to detox from a variety of additives, ranging from aspartame and saccharin to potassium bromate and sodium nitrate.

We were, also, supposed to cut out White flour - bleached flour. Which brings us to the topic of what's in your bread?

One of the specific things requested by our trainers was to look at our bread. It should not have white flour, bleached flour or ingredients you could not picture as a food.

So, off I went to my kitchen to read the bread label. I like to think I have made a fair attempt at buying "better" bread. But, alas, I realize I am a marketing manager's dream consumer. I really like pretty labels. :)

Our bread was crap. There are appoximately 50 ingredients - half of which I cannot pronounce. The first ingredient being BLEACHED FLOUR. Grrr.....

See how they sucked me in with the no high fructose corn syrup and whole grain? Well, they forgot to mention the bleach, the cellulose (which is wood),and guar gum (The drought-resistant guar bean can be eaten as a green bean, fed to cattle, or used in green manure.) Sounds tasty.

So I went the grocery store and found a bread with only a handful of ingredients, made locally, and I can happily tell my trainers about:

Pretty simple. Pretty easy. Not having chemicals pumped in my body. It does not have nutrition values, but I can make a fair estimate. Also, these pieces of bread which are different sizes and smaller (not perfect uniformity like factory bread) is actually MORE FILLING!

So thank you, Superior Bread Co., my trainers will be proud and I like your bread. :)

Here is an article for you to read about bleaching flour.

Bleached Flour in Food


Good luck with better bread choices!!