Know Your Food: Our Daily Bread

A detailed look at how modern bread is made, tracing the journey from wheat fields through industrial milling to the supermarket shelf. Covers the anatomy of a wheat grain, how flour is compounded and fortified, the role of yeast, and the Chorleywood process — a mid-20th-century high-speed baking method that replaced traditional fermentation and now dominates mass bread production. Addresses the nutritional debate between artisan and industrial loaves, concluding that regulated industrial bread is nutritionally sound, even if artisan bread offers superior flavour and texture.

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