The Bread We Eat

Clearly, all the additives listed in the section above are not present in any one food. An examination of the composition of ordinary white bread, however, reveals just how many of these are found in the food we eat every day. Table 10.4 lists the ingredients of a commercially prepared white 

Wheat flour Barley malt Ferrous sulfate (iron) 

High fructose corn syrup or sugar Yeast 

Calcium sulfate Wheat gluten Soybean oil Salt 

Dough conditioners (may contain mono- and diglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, dicalcium phosphate, datem, sorbic acid, and/or carbon dioxide) Vinegar Soy flour 

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