What's your favorite type of bread? 🍞

I actually checked the ingredients list and the only "preservatives" there are calcium sulfate (it's also a source of calcium) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C). The rest of the "scary looking" ingredients are pretty much vitamins and other micronutrients, and baking powder. This kind of fortified food is pretty common in USA, if I've understood correctly. Now, it IS good to bake yourself if you like it, it's relaxing and you get to control the quality of the "regular" ingredients (what type of flour you use, what kind and amount of sugar etc). But yeah, always do research before scaremongering or deciding to burn all the Big Bread breads :'D.

The problem is when i bake bread, we end up eating all 5 loaves in the same day....

I used to bake my own wheat bread, but I just recently found out that our favorite bakeshop (WITH THE BEST PANDESAL EVER) sells wheat bread WITHOUT PRESERVATIVES. Therefore, it only lasts for 3 days, but much better of course. So glad I found it in the bakeshop!

Most of those ingredients are vitamins. Riboflavin for example, is vitamin B2. Thiamine is vitamin B1

A lot of those ingredients in the bread are vital nutrients and minerals. Many countries have passed laws that all baked breads made in the country should be fortified with these so they are an inexpensive source of these vitamins and minerals.

I can’t believe people don’t understand that those preservatives are fine, and that a lot of the stuff that goes into it is to fortify the bread which literally makes it healthier

I live in Germany, so we have like 4 different types of bread at home and at that point I made like 20 different types of bread by now. I nearly bake every week, because I love the smell and taste of fresh warm bread from the oven 😅

i love how the comment section turned to show her how wrong she is about the chemicals lol

This is fine and all but I really don’t like spreading the mentality of “weird name in ingredients = scary and bad”. Rather than just avoiding anything you don’t know out of fear, it’s probably a good idea to look up what it actually is first. Sure there are plenty of unhealthy things in some storebought foods, but alot of those “scary chemical” names will often end up being things you’d be fine with if they listed the more colloquial name.

Buying a bread maker is LIFE CHANGING. I have my grandmother's old one and it works great. I'm allergic to gluten, so making my own is the only affordable option 💜

There’s a thing called a bakery you can get fresh bread for cheap and you save quite a lot of time

There are preservatives in many shelf breads though, otherwise the bread goes stale very quickly. Slice and freeze fresh baked bread and you can enjoy it long after baking

“All that stuff in my body daily.” Uh, what stuff? Folic acid? Riboflavin? Things that are TOTALLY fine for you? I think it’s amazing that she bakes her own bread. It tastes way better and can be pretty affordable!! BUT with that being said, how about instead of being afraid of stuff we don’t understand and having a knee-jerk reaction, we just LOOK UP what each of those things is and decide whether you’re comfortable with each of them being in your body. It worries me when people see unfamiliar ingredients and instead of familiarizing themselves with them, just leap to “I can’t eat this, it’s bad for me.” That’s a fallacy because many things you haven’t heard of, or that sound “scary,” aren’t. In fact, folic acid is a vitamin supplement that is REALLY good for your skin and nails 💅 also known as vitamin B. so…… you know…… it’s okay that they add it to commercially prepared bread!!!!!

You know half of the ingredients in bread are the stuff you literally use to make bread every single day not random preservatives? Literally one of the ingredients is just the scientific name for baking powder

A lot of these same "chemicals" you are worried about are also in fortified flour, which you are probably using in your own bread. In some places, like Australia and USA, things like folic acid (folate) are required to be there by law because a deficiency can cause severe problems for pregnant people and congenital birth defects.

95% of those ingredients are in your homemade bread and the ones that arent dont do any harm. You can promote homemade food without psuedo science marketing bull.

You should just look up the ingredients rather than instantly having the thought process of removing it from your life because you don't understand it. If you don't like the ingredients then go through the next step of doing it by scratch. With that said, it's good to learn how make things by scratch just in case there's a food shortage or scandal at a company that reveals to be harmful and can impact your food and health.

The refrigerator actually speeds up the staling of bread. You can find good quality breads in the fresh baked section, or a local bakery. Nothing on that ingredient list was concerning though.

A lot of people don't know that before we started fortifying bread rickets was a much bigger problem, those "scary additives you can't pronounce" are actually those fortifications that prevent rickets.

I would love to be able to but baking gluten free bread is very difficult to make right. It sucks because gluten free store bought bread is even more unhealthy than gluten bread

I hate this kind of fear mongering when it’s obvious you don’t know anything about what the ingredients actually are...

Lmao calling fortified wheat flour additives and basic dough conditioners "preservatives" is probably the biggest meme I've heard all year. Literally half of those ingredients are found in just regular old all-purpose/bread flour. Not only can some of these dough conditioners speed up the rising process, but it generally just makes it so dough is easily workable.

The thing about ALWAYS baking your own bread is that you always have to have time, ingredients, and energy. Some people don’t have enough excess of those things to be able to make bread every time they need it. And take this coming from a baking and pastry student who’s IN CULINARY SCHOOL: we don’t got that.

In Greece it's more common to buy fresh bread from local bakeries so we kinda do get lazy making it. Quolity is most of the time A++!

Thats just added vitamins and minerals

Yes, I mix 300 ml water with 1tsp of salt 2tbsp yeast & 420 g bread flour, make a nice firm dough out of it. Let it sit in the fridge for 6-8hours then bake on highest heat in a preheated durch oven with lid on for 30 mins. Take the lid off, then 15-20 minutes with lid off. Beautiful bread every time.

Your grandpa is a smart man! I just kind of came to the realization of how important it is to have the best quality for things you consume every day. We've switched over to making homemade bread, drink organic whole bean coffee grounds and ditched the processed creamer. Makes a huge difference and is worth the extra time and money when it comes to your health!

I appreciate and understand the philosophy behind the daily bread baking but if you're not using a natural sourdough starter and fresh milled whole grain flour then the health benefits are minimal if any.

"Preservatives and random ingredients" THOSE ARE ALL VITAMINS, WHAT

to anyone who doesnt have the time. often times your grocery store will have a bakery section where they bake different kinds of bread fresh. the quality varies depending on the store. (walmart for example i hate all their bakery items and they dont bake bread but walmart isnt really a grocery store) personally love going thru them and finding interesting breads to try. yes each one isnt baked with love but they do the fill the requirement for non wonder bread which does have a ton of sugar and preservatives added into it.

Hey, good for you! I decided to make my own bread too recently, and it has been so fun and rewarding! I recommend you all to try, it's much more fun to know you eat something you've made, you can control its taste, and it's so much more healthy. My favourite bread is now the one I'm making: sourdough bread... It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get it, you can experiment and do whatever you want, and, it has a very small percentage of gluten compared to other types of bread (for people that it matters to)

Preservatives are used to prevent mold from growing in it, it wont harm you :)

As a chef and health activist, the nutrients you get from bread arent that great. Making anything at home is amazing, but its not gonna be much healthier.

My favorite thing on the internet is when people fear monger based on the “ingredients” in something you can buy in the store and they’re just nutrients with “scientific names.” lol. This happens in health and beauty, too. Always makes me chuckle.

Wow you eat bread everyday? No one would EVER expect that! You are so cool and everyone likes you!🥺🥺🥺

And this is why we should never miss our chemistry lessons.

I love homemade bread, especially fresh bread it is 100% better than store bought if made right😊

Absolutely! Baking your own bread has its perks beyond just the delicious aroma filling your kitchen. It's a rewarding experience that allows you to control the ingredients, ensuring a healthier and fresher option. Plus, there's something special about the satisfaction of slicing into a loaf you've crafted yourself. 🍞😊

Baking your own bread can be so rewarding! Not only do you get to enjoy the delicious aroma filling your home, but you also have full control over the ingredients. Plus, there's something special about the satisfaction of slicing into a freshly baked loaf you made yourself!

I've been baking all my own bread for almost 3 years now and there's definitely a huge difference in flavor. I now find that eating store bought bread makes my stomach feel heavy and I feel lethargic

Honestly, nothing beats the taste of freshly baked bread! No matter the type, it always tastes unbelievably good especially on an empty stomach ❤

I LOVE pandisal !!! My nanny is a philipina and she introduced it to me and now i’m obsessed 🤩

Those strange-looking ingredient names aren't scary or bad they're just common ingredients that you know with their scientific name

There's a bakery right next to my house! I guess i'm pretty lucky. Sometimes I'll go in and the bread is still fresh and warm, so warm that when I take it home and spread butter on it, the butter melts!

When you make bread yourself it’s actually the best. Like it tastes so good.

Dear Jeanelle, please add water in the oven during baking, in a bowl or anything in handy, it will give the bread most beautiful shiny golden crust and color plus the dough wil be more fluffy and not dry. Try it, it is a lifechanging hack. Love you,❤

Some of you would be scared of baking powder too cause it‘s academic name is mostly unknown for consumers. To instantly fear preservatives and stuff to me is the same as ppl who are into conspiracy theories about vaccines. Not that those 2 are comparable in the damages they cause of course but it‘s the same ignorance and blind fear that leads to this. And I don‘t mind ppl baking their own bread either if you wanna do the extra work that‘s fine. But to think it is healthier to make white bread than buying it in stores is in most cases not true. White bread is always a piece of empty calories slapped into a ball and baked into a fluffy thing. To actually make healthy bread means that you‘ll need to make whole wheat bread (dunno if it‘s the right word btw am not american i meant the darker flour with the kernels and stuff still in tact and the shell of the grains in the flour) so really if u wanna make healthy bread u‘d need to use a different flour to begin with. But that‘s all i can say. So don‘t be ignorant. Research the things you‘re scared of and chemicals that are actually dangerous so you can check for those specific ones when u buy bread. Don‘t just look at things that are foreign to you and automatically assume they are bad because they aren‘t always bad.

Sometimes I really appreciate being German. Good bread easily available everywhere.

THAT TRANSITION WAS SO COOL

My grandfather talks about “all that extra stuff” in bread all the time. People used to get scurvy and all sorts of other awful maladies because they weren’t getting enough vitamins, so food companies started inserting those vitamins into foods all people would eat every day. This was a huge benefit to people, especially poor people who couldn’t get their vitamins because they lived on a poor “bread, rice, and beans” type diet. No hate, but I think people in the U.S. have become so obsessed with knowing what’s in their food, that they want to get rid of anything they can’t pronounce… even if it was put there to nourish them.

“For the record I still enjoy the typical junk foods. I had Cheetos last night😊” had me dying

Okay, so, either you eat “scary” store-bought bread, or get fat 10x faster eating home-baked bread. Hmmm.

I just started getting into baking our own bread this year. It’s so much better for you, I don’t feel as crappy eating it, it’s lighter , tastier and let’s face it nothing is better than warm bread outside oven !

When I make bread in my KitchenAid mixer, it doesn't stick to the bowl or dough hook. It still makes moist loaves but it's super easy and clean to handle the dough. No floured board. The only items to wash are the mixer bowl and bread hook and they're mostly clean. Do anything enough and it gets easier.

“I still eat junk food, I just had cheetos last night” that sounds like “I’m not racist my friend is black”

I love bread too, I’ve always wanted a homemade bread that’s really fluffy and delicious! But I haven’t made one yet. I especially love it warm and toasty though!

My dad taught me how to make bread once. He stood in the kitchen and told me what to do. After that time he told me “you can do it yourself, but I can still help” and the next loaf of bread I made I added too much flour but didn’t know. Do I went to my dad and asked for his help because the dough wasn’t working with me. He went out and kneaded the dough for four minutes before shrugging his shoulders and told me I added too much flour. I almost started crying because I had messed it up. But he told me that the bread would just be a bit denser and that he liked denser bread. The time after that I killed the yeast accidentally. It’s just normal white bread, but learning how to make that bread is so important to me because it was one of the few and far between times my dad ever had time to do extra stuff in my early childhood. And now that I’m almost in my last year of highschool and he’s teaching me how to make what type of bread I like rather that what he specifically likes means a lot to me

We eat bread at least 3 times a day - breakfast, dinner, and supper. You just need to read the ingredients - ALWAYS! And homemade is always the best.

Her: I had *Cheetos* last night! Me: No way! Really? That's crazy! 🙄

This makes me sad because bread is the one thing I can’t make, basically yeast dough. I want to start baking my own bread to have better quality food in my diet but I’ve never done something so many times and failed before. I’m now already at around 10 attempts, I try it a few times a year just to see if I can get it. The only time I’ve ever made bread successfully was when I made it for the first time at 9 years old. Talk about beginners luck

Pan de sal is our main breakfest food here in Brazil, but here we called it as pão francês (french bread), it is smaller in size, usually eaten within butter, mortadela or fried eggs.

Okay but that looks so good 😫

Yeah, those “scary” nutrients are literally just fortified vitamins, countries all over have laws requiring food to have a certain amount of nutrition to them. Why else do you think cereal always had iron in it? They’re required by law to put in vitamins for your benefit. I’m not saying this to dissuade from baking your own bread, that’s epic, but it’s really not best practice to label the foreign as the bad just because you don’t understand the meaning of what those ingredients are. Saying you want to bake bread just because is a valid enough reason, you don’t need to add in fearmongering

I thought everyone got their bread from bakeries.. I guess I'm blessed cause my mom works in one :')

Me and my family try to always buy it from my local bakery. Its always made well, and we can always get the best bread and bagels there.

most bread bought from stores is made using the Chorleywood method which can trigger symptoms of ibs compared to traditional loaves. supermarket bread can also contain enzymes used to make the bread softer and these do not have to be included on the label of ingredients.

Dang your grandpa gave some good advice 😳 I never realized that before.

Aside from imbuing fear into people, I really don't have the time nor resources (a proper stand mixer) to make bread daily. Different people different situations I guess.

This comment section gives me hope for society! You guys used your brains and didn’t just blindly believe an influencer ❤️

My grandma use to make bread it was delicious but sadly she passed away in June. Luckily she has all her recipes saved so I can learn to make them just like she did

"Do you eat bread pretty often?" Me with coeliac disease: 😭 I DONT.

this makes me a bit sad. in germany you can get fresh baked bread every single day in almost every store. most convenience stores have a bakery or at least a baked goods section where you can get fresh bread every day and the bread that doesn't sell gets turned into bread crumbs which they also sell and it's usually super cheap and you get a huge variety

She has a good point about quality control for the most common thing you consume as it does add up over time. But yeah storebought bread is basically fine.

Making bread is relaxing.

Ahh what a blessing to live in Germany where bakeries are literally anywhere you go and sell the best bread without weird ingredients

"I eat bread quite often" -> doesn't eat bread 3 times a day Yeah, how about you come over here to germany...

Eating store bought bread is so brave

I’m half Filipino and LOVE pandisal. My Tita always saves some for me at family gatherings 😂

I like homemade bread but most of the time we don't have the ingredients so my family just eats store bought bread

I don't get why people are always making a fuss about additives in food. If it was bad for you they wouldn't put it in there, lol

That homemade bread though It looks absolutely INCREDIBLE I NEED SOMEEE

Pro tips for freezing bread: 1. If you are by yourself, you can cut a large loaf in half and freeze one of the halves so it doesn’t all go bad. 2. Cut slices of the bread 3/4 of the way down before you freeze it so it is easier to cut later on.

“BREAD MAKES YOU FAT???”

I order bags of wheat berries in bulk and grind my own flour that i use to bake my own bread. I bake several loaves at a time and put the loaves in the freezer for storage so when i thaw it it tastes fresh baked.

Looks so good!

the issue of common sliced bread being bad for health doesn’t so much come from the preservatives as it does the added sugars and ultra-processed flours that really aren’t much better, that wouldn’t be there in normal bread, which do very much add up. mainly though, homemade bread just tastes better, so much that when you’re used to it typical American bread seems like a completely different substance.

I apparently got my parents hate the food we eat in restaurants 😂 I started to learn how to cook the food they love and now they don't want to buy them anymore. They compare the amount they spend for 1 order and how much I can cook from scraps and make it even better and they feel it's not worth buying there anymore. Recently, it was bread! But it's soo tiring! And I don't have a stand mixer. We no longer buy bread since 3 weeks ago but now I have to bake almost everyday. But it's freshly baked bread. And even though it's tiring, they love it! And you are right! Just the best ingredients for the family.

I learned to make whole wheat bread and tbh best thing I could have done for my kids. I have two small kids and learning to make everything is a lot better for them

I really enjoy this series Jeanelleats!!

I like watching you baking. Thank you for sharing with us.

I’ve been making my own bread since around Thanksgiving of 2019. I love it! (Save a lot of money too.)

A lot of the comments are saying that the bread isn’t really processed, but it definitely is. Once I moved to Europe, I found that the bread was so much better and made me feel less bloated too. There’s definitely a difference, so she’s right to make her own bread if she’s concerned

Making bread before there were dough mixers available for the home is making bread. Feeling the dough change in your hands, through kneading, is making bread.

The bread looks so good

Such good advice. Whatever you consume often you should get or make good quality. Thank you for this great advice.

dude pandasal slaps, its frickin awesome, definitely one of my favs

I don't eat very much bread, but I usually bake my own. It's just the best. And I can digest it easily which can otherwise be a problem.

I live in Austria, where bread is literally THE BEST. It’s something everyone eats everyday... so the quality is also goof

My dads side of the family has granny's bread. Passed down from grandma to granddaughter. Its yeast rolls. I'm still having trouble memorizing it so ill have to record the instructions next time we make some. But they are soooo good. Made from scratch too.