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[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Spoiler: It's neither of those two bread packages.

[–] xav@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can confirm (am French).

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks for confirming your frenchness.

[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Bread"

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“Hazelnut spread”

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sweet brown palm oil.

[–] HairyHarry@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sugar held together by palm oil.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

I tell people it's sugar with a hint of cocoa

[+] makeshift0546@lemmy.today -9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

My American bread:

NGREDIENTS:

Organic whole wheat (organic whole wheat flour, organic cracked whole wheat), water, organic cane sugar, organic 21 Whole Grains and Seeds mix (organic whole flax seeds, organic sunflower seeds, organic tri-color quinoa [organic black quinoa, organic red quinoa, organic white quinoa], organic ground whole flax seeds, organic triticale, organic pumpkin seeds, organic rolled barley, organic rolled oats, organic rolled rye, organic blue cornmeal, organic millet, organic rolled spelt, organic brown rice flour, organic amaranth flour, organic yellow cornmeal, organic KAMUT® khorasan wheat, organic sorghum flour, organic buckwheat flour, organic quinoa, organic poppy seeds), organic wheat gluten, organic oat fiber, contains 2% or less of each of the following: yeast, organic molasses, sea salt, organic cultured wheat flour, organic vinegar, organic acerola cherry powder, enzymes

Care to tell my how it's garbage?.

[–] Luccus@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This should be part of a show called: Trolling European or actual American?

I know some Americans who would readily call cake "bread". But they know that it's not great and contains too much sugar and/or molasses.

Bread is water, flour and salt; perhaps some oil to keep it moist and maybe fancy stuff like carrots or seeds. But never sugar. There's already sugar hidden everywhere else. No need to add it to a staple food aswell.

[–] zeroConnection@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Poor Americans are so conditioned to eat garbage to support their "health system" oligarchs, they can't even tell what's healthy what's not.

No matter how many healthy ingredients it contains, it does not negate the bad ingredients. Namely in this case a ton of sugar. You are eating cakes, not bread.

It's called "health halo" marketing.

[+] bequirtle@lemmy.world -10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lol get over yourself. The bread is maybe 1-2g sugar per slice, cake is like 15g

[–] HairyHarry@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Just to make it clear. Industrial made bread for example in Germany also contains sugar. A typical (american style) toast bread has half the amount of sugar though.

So, yes, although bread traditional needs no sugar, we Europeans still consume sugar when eating industrial made bread.

[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I would not consider industrial-made bread to be healthy in the first place, though.

Genuinely my gut reaction to this post was that if it's packaged in plastic, it's not going to be healthy.

[–] HairyHarry@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I'm with you. But this kind of bread (I would say 90% of bread sold in supermarkets) is what is consumed the most.

So, though we put less sugar into our preprocessed food, than they do in the US for example, we shouldn't laugh too loud about consumerists of the US.

[–] zeroConnection@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Then why is sugar listed as the third ingredient? You do realise the ingredients are listed from the most to the least contained in the product. If sugar is 1-2g, then your slice of bread must weigh no more than 10 grams, LOL

Edit: I looked up your "Dave’s Killer Bread (21 Whole Grains)" and it has 3 to 5 grams of added sugar per slice! Yeah, that's a cake.

Funny how it's marketed as healthy in the USA. Like I said you are conditioned to eat garbage, and you believe the lies they tell you.

Enjoy getting diabetes from your "healthy bread". Gotta support that "health system" somehow, otherwise it would be very unprofitable to have a healthy population.

[–] bequirtle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The bread in my pantry is sara lee whole wheat, 1g sugar/26g slice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

From memory, a typical grocery store whitebread is 2g for a similar size slice

[–] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 20 hours ago

For future reference

[–] mech@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The ingredient list is a mile long and the third most ingredient is sugar.
Bread needs flour, water, yeast and salt.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sugar, molasses (different sugar), probably no fermentation time, probably no crust.

Different point, is that really the average bread? I doubt it.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I thought it was irony until i read the other comments...that bread is absolute shit, the list should only contain flour, water and yeast
Edit: i forgot salt

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago

Something with more fiber, to offset at least a small bit of the sugar… in the bread.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

Me trying to find the healthiest drink at the fast food restaurant