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Also known as bun, breads, buns
Bread is a baked food product made from water, flour, and often yeast. It is a staple food across the world, particularly in Europe and the Middle East. Throughout recorded history and around the world, it has been an important part of many cultures' diets. It is one of the oldest human-made foods, having been of significance since the dawn of agriculture, and plays an essential role in both religious rituals and secular culture.
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Bread is a staple food and baked good made from water, flour, table salt, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It may also contain oil. The fabrication method is breadmaking. It first appeared in Europe about 30 thousand years ago. The subject is distinct from food and the term Bread.
Nutritional data indicates that bread contains 278 kcal of energy, 5.1 g of fat, 46.7 g of carbohydrates, and 9.5 g of proteins. It also includes 1.4 g of saturated fat, 4.4 g of sugars, 5.3 g of fiber, and 3.19 g of salt. The product has a Nutri-Score of c and a NOVA classification of 4. Its carbon footprint is 0.6.
The Unicode character for bread is 🍞. It is categorized under Category:Breads and the breads category in Openfoodfacts, which lists 14,529 products. The topic is described by sources including the Pauly–Wissowa, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. It appears on focus lists for Wikipedia vital articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 32 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Openfoodfacts, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Bread
- Food.image
- alt=Loaves of bread in a basket|250px
- Food.caption
- Various leavened breads
- Food.main_ingredient
- Flour, water
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Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 14,529 products
- Energy
- 278 kcal
- Fat
- 5.1 g
- — of which saturates
- 1.4 g
- Carbohydrates
- 46.7 g
- — of which sugars
- 4.4 g
- Fibre
- 5.3 g
- Protein
- 9.5 g
- Salt
- 3.19 g
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Research
18,102 papers- Evaluation of nutrients in bread: a systematic review.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2022Aghalari Z, Dahms HU, Sillanpää MDOI: 10.1186/s41043-022-00329-3
- Industrial Bread Composition: Potential Implications for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.ReviewNutrients · 2025Shakhman S, Pfeffer-Gik T, Elial-Fatal S et al.DOI: 10.3390/nu17132120
- Vitamin d-fortified bread: Systematic review of fortification approaches and clinical studies.Food chemistry · 2022Souza SVS, Borges N, Vieira EFDOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.131325
- Separating Myths From Facts About Bread and Health.ReviewNutrition bulletin · 2026Shewry PR, Lovegrove A, Joy EJM et al.DOI: 10.1111/nbu.70038
- Par-baked Bread Technology: Formulation and Process Studies to Improve Quality.ReviewCritical reviews in food science and nutrition · 2016Almeida EL, Steel CJ, Chang YKDOI: 10.1080/10408398.2012.715603
- Acceptability of veggie bread among Lebanese adults.Frontiers in public health · 2025Chanbour A, Hassan HF, Kreidieh D et al.DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1573593
- Modification of appetite by bread consumption: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Critical reviews in food science and nutrition · 2017Gonzalez-Anton C, Artacho R, Ruiz-Lopez MD et al.DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2015.1084490
- Germinated/fermented legume flours as functional ingredients in wheat-based bread: A review.ReviewJournal of food science · 2025Chinma CE, Ezeocha VC, Adedeji OE et al.DOI: 10.1111/1750-3841.70022
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- baked good
- Has part
- sugar
- Material used
- oil
- Image
- Ruisleipä-limppu reikäleipä reissumies hapankorppu-1.JPG
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- Unicode character
- 🍞
- Commons category
- Bread
- topic's main category
- Category:Breads
- Commons gallery
- Bread
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- fabrication method
- breadmaking
- different from
- Bread
- date of first performance
- 0030-00-00
- first appearance
- Europe
- carbon footprint
- 0.6
- P8168
- Kang Ji-wook
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C178203
- inception
- 30000-00-0
- hashtag
- bread
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Article · العربية
الخُبْز هو الغذاء الرئيسي في الشرق الأوسط وأوروبا والثقافات الهندية وشمال أفريقيا. الخبز دائما يتكون من طحين (القمح أو الذرة أو الشعير) والماء، والملح والخميرة غالباً. وقد يحتوي الخبز أيضا على بعض السكر والفواكه والتوابل (مثل الزبيب واليقطين والموز)، والخضروات (مثل البصل)، والمكسرات. هناك طرق كثيرة لإعداد الخبز تختلف من مجتمع إلى آخر. في أجزاء كثيرة من العالم يصنع الناس الخبز بالطريقة اليدوية تمامًا كما كان يصنع الخبازون القدامى، أما في الدول الصناعية، فإن معظم عمليات صنع الخبز في المخابز التجارية تتم بوساطة الآلات، والخبز طعام لذيذ وشهي وله أنواع وأشكال ونكهات مختلفة. الخبز غذاء هيدركربوني هام وهو غذاء ممتاز إذا كان محضرا من القمح الجيد وإذا كان مخبوزا بطرق صحية سليمة. وللخبز قيمة غذائية هامة فكل مئة جرام منه تعطي 279 كالوري. والخبز الجاف الخفيف أفضل أنواع الخبز من حيث قابلية الهضم، واستخراج النخالة من الدقيق يفقد رغيف الخبز الفيتامينات الموجودة في قشرة حبة القمح، لهذا الخبز الأسمر الذي لم تُستخرَج النخالة منه أكثر فائدة من الخبز الأبيض الذي اُستخرج النخالة منه إلا بنسبة مئوية بسيطة.
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