11-15-2024, 07:28 PM
(11-15-2024, 01:51 PM)Maxmars Wrote: I used to enjoy Italian bread that I could pick up at the grocery store. Over the last two years, if I eat that bread I get terrible intestinal distress.
I had stopped eating white bread from the grocery store, because of similar problems. After I switched to potato bread all that stopped. But Italian bread is a special treat for me so it was disappointing when it started affecting the same as white bread. I had thought it was the bleaching of the flour... but it may be some other aspect of "industrialized" baking and whatever their "ingredients" are.
I noticed that it may be time to worry about bread that doesn't go stale... until you open the packaging...
It's a shame that they "Add" stuff to the bread to make it easier to sell old bread. But it seems in keeping with the pitiful excuse for fruit and vegetables shipped by the ton... hard, thick-skinned, anemic-looking fruit ripened by chemical exposure in the shipping container... garbage that would never sell at the point of production. Tiny avocados, dry citrus fruits, melons with skin like leather...
And of course there's the irony of paying more for food stuffs with less "stuff" in it. "Organic" is just an excuse to economically punish the consumer further for not eating the garbage they dispose of in 'commercial' food items.
Ugh! Now I'm in a funk.
Excuse me.
man, sorry to hear that. I'm not a huge bread eater but I know very well how negative reactions to something you enjoy is a total buzzkill. (beer, for me).
On a related note, since the world went to shit (COVID-influenced price gouging), I shop mainly at ALDI for my everyday stuff. They have an Italian bread that boasts "Made with only 4 ingredients" which of course is Flour, Water, Salt and Sugar iirc.
It's quite good and surprisingly, goes bad within a week easy. That speaks volumes to me. Shelf-stable store bread scares the shit out of me. If it can sit for weeks or even months and still remain soft and non-moldy, imagine what the additive that manages that does to your insides when consumed. No thanks!
