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I always look at the ingredients list of bread in the US and I am always surprised how long the list is. Why do they put so much stuff (and always sugar or syrup) into any bread?
Sugar is a drug, so I guess that addiction can play here. There's not a lot of regulations for health and safety around most ingredients, so I'd say that also plays: Fewer risks of decay and such
I always look at the ingredients list of bread in the US and I am always surprised how long the list is. Why do they put so much stuff (and always sugar or syrup) into any bread?
This changes many of the properties of the bread and the long-term effects of this change aren't well understood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process
No knead bread is really easy to make, low effort, ridiculously cheap and able to fit into a busy lifestyle. It uses long fermentation with yeast to rise and condition the dough. I use this recipe: https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/03/basic-no-knead-b...
I do not know anything about these chemicals in particular, but this framing: > It may sound odd, but in America, your loaf of bread can contain ingredients with industrial applications – additives that also appear in things like yoga mats, pesticides, hair straighteners, explosives and petroleum products. always bugs the hell out of me. Water has numerous industrial applications. Linseed oil and NaCl have numerous i…
> straight-up fear-mongering The unofficial Guardian tagline EDIT: Downvoters, from the linked page: > Toxic America: Is modern life poisoning us? Weedkiller in your breakfast cereal. Contaminated drinking water. Carcinogenic chemicals in your furniture. Americans are routinely exposed to dangerous chemicals that have long been banned in countries such as the UK, Germany and France. Of the 40,000 chemicals used in co…
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> straight-up fear-mongering The unofficial Guardian tagline EDIT: Downvoters, from the linked page: > Toxic America: Is modern life poisoning us? Weedkiller in your breakfast cereal. Contaminated drinking water. Carcinogenic chemicals in your furniture. Americans are routinely exposed to dangerous chemicals that have long been banned in countries such as the UK, Germany and France. Of the 40,000 chemicals used in co…
Well at least back in the day they would restrict themselves to the UK. Now they fear-monger worldwide :P
Doesn't it simply come down to the EU applying the precautionary principle for all safety regulation, including food additives, whilst the US does not?
I do not know anything about these chemicals in particular, but this framing: > It may sound odd, but in America, your loaf of bread can contain ingredients with industrial applications – additives that also appear in things like yoga mats, pesticides, hair straighteners, explosives and petroleum products. always bugs the hell out of me. Water has numerous industrial applications. Linseed oil and NaCl have numerous i…
> straight-up fear-mongering The unofficial Guardian tagline EDIT: Downvoters, from the linked page: > Toxic America: Is modern life poisoning us? Weedkiller in your breakfast cereal. Contaminated drinking water. Carcinogenic chemicals in your furniture. Americans are routinely exposed to dangerous chemicals that have long been banned in countries such as the UK, Germany and France. Of the 40,000 chemicals used in co…
I've always been fascinated by how disgusting the bread is in the US. Do we know what lead to this ?
I've always been fascinated by how disgusting the bread is in the US. Do we know what lead to this ?
Good bread, as with any good food, typically takes time and quality ingredients. You won't find that in mass produced food. That costs too much.