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Comment by jrockway | Hacker News Reader

What is "North American" bread exactly? I bake my own bread and use a tablespoon of sugar; the bread does not taste sweet. But if you buy like Wonder bread in the stores, that's intentionally sweetened to taste like cake. I have never seen anyone buy that stuff, though.

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Stroll through the prepackaged bread aisle of any U.S. grocery store and look at the sugar content on the nutrition labels.

At my local Safeway, the generic brand 100% whole wheat bread contains 4g of sugar per slice. With 16 slices in a pack, that’s a third cup of sugar per loaf.

The ingredients? Whole wheat flour, water, sugar, wheat gluten, honey, brown sugar, yeast, oil, salt, …

I enjoy converting g to number of sugar packets which is about 3g. So that's 1 packet per slice (which the yeast might eat). When you say that a coke has 10 packets of sugar it makes you gag a little.

When I bake bread I use a pinch of sugar for an entire loaf. The yeast are just fine eating the flour. Thinking of a packet of sugar PER SLICE is insane to me. Especially for whole grain

> I have never seen anyone buy that stuff, though.

Must be why there's a whole aisle dedicated to that kind of bread, in most stores. Nobody buys it.

You've never seen anyone purchase the best selling brand of white bread in the US?

Surely we're not surprised how detached, on this site, we mostly are from common consumption behaviors?

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