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🚦Hmmm 🤨 (6/10)
🔥Hot Take 🔥: Supermarket bread’s ingredient list is longer than the classics—here’s why! Bakery purists might not love it, but there’s no big scandal in that loaf 🍞.
🔥Hot Take 🔥: Supermarket bread’s ingredient list is longer than the classics—here’s why! Bakery purists might not love it, but there’s no big scandal in that loaf 🍞.
🎯 Reality Check: Hmmm 🤨
📝 Why: Traditional bread recipes (like the classic French baguette) use only water, salt, yeast, and flour. But most shop-bought bread has extra ingredients (like preservatives, emulsifiers, and sugar) to keep it soft and fresh for longer on supermarket shelves and to aid large-scale production. This isn’t unique to one country—UK and US mass-produced breads list more than four ingredients as standard. That doesn’t mean it’s “not food”—it just means it was made for mass production and longer shelf life. If you want the simple stuff, try independent bakeries or bake at home!
🔗 Source: Food Standards Agency (UK), "Bread and bakery products"; BBC Good Food "What is in shop-bought bread?"; USDA Food Database; The Guardian, "What’s really in supermarket bread?"
