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bread crumbs in bread!!!

Went into Asda today to buy some bread from their instore bakery.


I asked if they had a list of ingredients that they use in their bread.
After them asking several people, one managed to find the file where the ingreients were listed...


first of all he told me it was just yeast and water, and I told him that what you add instore, when I looked at the file, I seen the ingredients an they were


Wheat flour, water, BREAD CRUMBS, rapeseed oil, E??? emulsifier, and another e number..




Bread crumbs being added to bread???? is this the stale bread that is sent back to be made into bread crumbs, to be then added back to bread??


I am gobsmacked...


'Breadgate' has now officially started lol...


I was wondering why they don't actively put the ingredients on display, or on the bread label..
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  • Steve059
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    So that's where the breadcrumbs in the bottom of the bag come from. :)
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  • Callie22
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    One of the e-numbers will probably be E300 (ascorbic acid - vitamin C) which is added as a bread improver. Couldn't tell you what the other might be but e-numbers in supermarket bread are usually either preservatives, anti-mould agents or dough improvers.

    I have no idea why they'd be adding breadcrumbs though, unless they've got a generic ingredients sheet which covers some of their speciality loaves? I'm sure I've seen the odd one with a crumby topping. It might be something they chuck on their tiger bread, for example.

    I can't remember the actual rules (it's a long time since I worked in a bakery :)) but iirc you don't have to put the ingredients on bread made in an instore bakery, you just have to have them available should a customer ask.
  • Bread crumbs being added to bread????

    Yes, have you never noticed them falling out when you cut the bread?
  • SailorSam
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    I make my own bread at home but i've never bought a bag of E numbers to add to the mix.
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  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    or thought of chucking in breadcrumbs?
  • I had my carpal tunnel done earlier this year so I haven't been able to make my own bread until this week.
    I hate the pappy sliced stuff and don't like Asda bakery bread, I have been buying bread from Morrisons, but now I can save my money and bake proper bread with no dodgy additives, especially the herbicides that have been found in sliced bread
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  • Callie, they had different spec sheets for different loaves, I bought a normal 'sandwich' loaf..


    Think I am going to email Asda and ask them to clarify exactly what they mean by bread crumbs being an actual ingredient.


    I thought any bread from the instore bakery is send back to main depot, and given to their meat suppliers to feed the animals..


    thinking about it I should have asked for a photocopy of the spec sheet..
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  • How did they make the first ever loaf then, as they wouldn't have had any breadcrumbs to make it, lol?!
    I must remember that "Money Saving" is not buying heavily discounted items that I do not need. :hello:
  • ok I know it sound like a subject to take the piddle out of lol..


    BUT what I am trying to say is, if someone asked you to write the ingredients that are in a loaf of bread, would you expect, or say bread crumbs??


    so if they are adding stale, bread crumbs to the ingredients, and not actively displaying it, what else are they not saying..


    does anyone know what is in the stuff that they gloss the tiger bread with, to give it that taste??
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  • does anyone know what is in the stuff that they gloss the tiger bread with, to give it that taste??

    I believe its sesame oil, lovely nutty taste :)
    Let's get ready to bumble! :rotfl:
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