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The title is a little misleading... Subway can still call it "bread" but it cannot have the tax-exempt status of a staple food, because the weight of the sugar
by klodolph 6y ago
The title is a little misleading... Subway can still call it "bread" but it cannot have the tax-exempt status of a staple food, because the weight of the sugar in the bread is 10%, which is above the 2% limit.
As a note, this is "baker's percentages", where the amount of flour is defined to be 100% and all other ingredients are measured by weight relative to the flour - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_percentage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_percentage
I have known Europeans to criticize American bread for being too sweet but if you live and shop here it's easy enough to find better bread.
- arcticbull 6y ago10% sugar?! That's bananas.
- ffpip 6y agoNo, Bananas is 53%
- klodolph 6y agoNot quite. Bananas have a lot of sugar, by weight. The Subway bread is something like 8%. Bananas are more like 12-16%. People are often surprised by the proportions of ingredients in restaurant food anyway. The reason that restaurant food tastes "better" than home cooking is often down to added sugar, salt, and fat.
- arcticbull 6y agoOk I just want to say I love that you took my statement literally.
- artificial 6y agoThis is fantastic.
- rosege 6y agoHow much sugar in Banana bread?
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- superkuh 6y ago2:1 flour to sugar ratio in banana bread and that's not counting the sugar in the bananas. But banana bread is only named bread. It is technically a cake.
- dangravell 6y agoTechnically I'd call it a quickbread (muffin). Cake has more even ratios and more defined mixing techniques (creaming, foaming).
- eindiran 6y agoGiven that baker's percentages are given as a percentage of the flour content of an item[0], you could argue that the baker's percentage of sugar in a banana approaches infinity. Baker's percentage (foo) = 100% * weight(foo) / weight(flour) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_percentage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_percentage
- kennywinker 6y agoDividing by zero, result is (ba)NaN(a)
- tptacek 6y agoIs challah bananas? Brioche?
- robertely 6y agochallah isn't made for sandwiches...
- tptacek 6y agoThere are obviously a ton of different challah sandwiches.
- js2 6y agoChallah isn’t made for sandwiches. Its traditional purpose is for the sabbath and other Jewish holidays. It’s usually eaten on its own. Of course you can make sandwiches with it. It’s bread after all. But it’s not made for sandwiches. (The recipe I use is 10% sugar.) (It’s great for making French toast.)
- tptacek 6y agoThere are obviously a ton of different challah sandwiches.
- LegitShady 6y agoI've never needed so much sugar in challah - mine is usually egg rich instead.
- js2 6y agoI use basically this recipe: https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/09/best-challah-egg-bread/ https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/09/best-challah-egg-bread/
- LegitShady 6y ago
- sneak 6y agoNote that the starches in flour turn to sugar in your mouth when they come into contact with enzymes in saliva. Just because it doesn’t taste sweet doesn’t mean it’s not basically equivalent to eating raw sugar, nutritionally.
- bonzini 6y agoBread definitely tastes sweet if you chew it long enough.
- wavefunction 6y agoEurope has plenty of 'sweet bread' with sugar in similar quantities. I don't begrudge resistance to industrial 'bread products' but this is just a performative headline.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoThat sweet bread would be speciality bread, one wouldn't eat it every day and use it for regular sandwiches.
- wavefunction 6y agoI don't know anyone that would eat Subway every day. The point is that the sugar content of Subway 'bread products' is not sufficient to call it bread and I pointed out the facts.
- sjwright 6y agoSubway advertising explicitly or implicitly describes its food as being healthy, not an occasional treat. (Edit: receiving down-votes and I'm curious to know what's controversial about the above. Perhaps Subway is advertised differently in your country? Would be interesting to know.)
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- arcticbull 6y agoThe issue is precisely that Subway is positioning themselves as a health-conscious brand, and the sandwiches are frequently consumed daily by the office worker crowd without cafeteria access. If they were promoting it as a brioche sandwich, that'd be one thing.
- foolfoolz 6y agohealth means different things to different people. there is not one size all to healthy. a lot of people equate healthy to calorie count, not just grams of sugar. subway has good food for calories. i think some of their items do qualify as a health conscious sandwich
- fyfy18 6y agoAs ingredients don't list the bakers percentage of sugar, what does that mean on the nutrition label? Most of the 'bread' in my supermarket lists "carbohydrates of which sugars" as 2g to 5g per 100g.
- andreareina 6y agoQuick and dirty search for "moisture content of bread" gives a range of 35%~40%, so in a pinch multiply that by 2.5~3 for rough baker's percentage.