Bread from a supermarket

I would like you to tell you about something that surprised me some time ago.

The three most important words to encourage customers to buy bread in supermarkets are: “warm", "crusty" and "straight from the oven". Unfortunately, in most cases, this "bread from the oven" is a specially iced mass, which first waits half a year in the magazine before going to to oven.

What we can find in the bread from the supermarket?

For example, L-cysteine which is an amino acid added to bread flour so that the dough will be soft and malleable. It is made from cereals, but it is not a cheap method, so another source was found. L-cysteine can be obtained from the duck feathers or even from human hair (which is cheaper) collected from hairdressing salons (human hair is one of the richest sources of this amino acid). This production method is so effective that in China it is applied on a large scale. Of course, the factories do not reveal what sort of production they use. What is more, human hair improvers is also present in Europe and it is very likely that we can find it in deep-frozen bread from supermarkets. In Europe we can not add the L-cysteine from human hair and what is used is made of pig bristles. The problem is that in the supermarkets, where bread is baked in place, mostly frozen dough are from China.

I was not conscious of this phenomenon, but at the moment when I discovered the truth about it, I do not buy breadstuff in the supermarket. Most of people do not know about it and they are taken in when the plugs advertise how the rolls are delicious, fresh and crusty!