What Are Standards of Identity?

How Do I Know My Sandwich Bread Is Actually Bread?

The standard of identity set out for “bread” in the Food and Drug Regulations is generally “foods produced by baking mixed yeast-leaved dough prepared from one or more of the” flour ingredients listed, one or more of the wet ingredients listed, and one or more of the leavening ingredients. Additionally, there are 92 optional ingredients for “white” bread alone. To summarize the entire standard of identity, bread, rolls, and buns shall contain not less that 62% total solids.

If you put a spherical loaf of bread through a bread slicer, then each slice comes out with equal crust pic.twitter.com/Zz0mGJVF02

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