Here are some bread statistics you may not know.

 

• Most bread makers add calcium propionate into their bread to inhibit the growth of mould. Recent studies in Australia has shown that this additive can cause aberrant behavior  in children. To find out more go to Is your bread bad for you and your family?
• The biggest bread purchasers are Malays. Presumably because bread is cheap and can feed large families at a go. Doesn’t this make you worry for the little kids who eat bread that has the additive calcium propionate has in it?
• 2 out of 10 bread are not sold. The costs of the unsold breads are transferred to the consumers by the bread makers by charging more per bread. (Why can’t they make less and thus charge us less for bread?)
• Unsold old bread (yes, those with calcium propionate  as well) are sold to animal farmers as cheap feed.

Info from an employee who works with Gardenia Bread Malaysia and from www.crimetimes.org/03a/w03ap9.htm

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