Interesting Facts about Bread

• People are eating bread at least for 7500 years and today it’s still considered to be a staple food.
• The workers who built the pyramids of Egypt were paid in bread.
• In Biblical times bread was called “the Staff of Life”
• First bread in Americas was the unleavened cornmeal cakes that Indians used to make.
• According to the legend Christopher Columbus brought the first leavened bread to the New World. It was a small pot of a sourdough starter.
• First wheat crop in America was grown in 1602 in Massachusetts by British sea captain Bartholomew Gosnold.
• To make one loaf you would need approximately 350 ears of wheat.
• Bread provides more protein, iron, B vitamins and complex carbohydrates per penny than any other food.
• Bread is the major source of fibre in our diet, providing a quarter of our daily intake.
• Bread contains very little fat and virtually no sugar.
• Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the first commercial slice-and-wrap bread
• machine in 1928. He sold his pre-sliced and wrapped bread in a bakery at Battle Creek, Michigan. By 1933 80% of all bread sold in the US was sliced and wrapped.
• Every year approximately 72 million loaves of bread are sold in the USA.
• 70% of that bread is white!