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When people add sugar to bread, you should be able to see that processed sugar is a big problem.
by HKH2 2y ago
When people add sugar to bread, you should be able to see that processed sugar is a big problem.
- BeetleB 2y agoI always wondered about that when glancing at the ingredients, but I've never made my own bread. Did people in the past make bread without sugar?
- rrr_oh_man 2y ago> Did people in the past make bread without sugar? Yes. I made flatbread in the pan yesterday from water, flour, and some spices.
- HKH2 2y agoSugar is unnecessary but it does help the yeast so you won't need to use as much, but when there's enough sugar for bread to taste sweet you might as well eat cake.
- throwup238 2y agoThe standard (legally mandated) French baguette recipe is water, flour, salt, and yeast.
- nerdbert 2y ago> Did people in the past make bread without sugar? They do it in the present. Greetings from Europe. I hold in my hand a loaf of cheap (€1.20) supermarket bread, which tastes perfectly pleasant. The little supermarket on my street moves a full shelf of this every day. The ingredients are: - Wholewheat flour - Water - Wheat gluten - Yeast - Malt flour (barley, wheat) - Rye sourdough powder - Salt - Sesame seeds - Poppy seeds - Polenta - Rapeseed oil I have experienced the bread in the USA and it tastes like a light cake. The sugar makes it cloying to my taste. I guess it's all about what you're used to. But yes, bread without sugar is a very normal thing, and I wouldn't want sugar in mine.
- hollerith 2y agoThe "Malt flour" in your bread is probably mostly sugar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt#:~:text=modifying%20the%20grains%27%20starches%20into%20various%20types%20of%20sugar%2C%20including%20monosaccharide%20glucose%2C%20disaccharide%20maltose%2C%20trisaccharide%20maltotriose%2C%20and%20higher%20sugars%20called%20maltodextrines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt#:~:text=modifying%20the%2.... Also, it is pretty easy to buy bread not containing sugar in the US.
- ahartmetz 2y agoMalt flour contains 6-20% of sugar according to a German source I've found, so together with its low rank in the ingredient list, it's not a whole lot of sugar.
- gnicholas 2y agoSourdough has no sugar, for one thing.