Why is bread so sweet in America?

[Anonymous]

[Massageman]

Too much sugar in almost all processed foods, not just breads. "Healthy" Nutella has about 55% sugars ( so I heard, but I won't argue that point). Maybe try a rustic sourdough bread after eating some of those really sweet Easter breads such as Challah bread or Houska and be satisfied with a risen dough bread that does not use sugar per se. The natural yeasties in sourdough feed off of the natural starches in the flour as they break down into natural sugar fractions. Here are 71 ingredients that are some sort of "sugar":

Agave juice
Agave nectar
Agave syrup, all varieties
Beet sugar
Blackstrap molasses
Brown rice syrup
Brown sugar
Buttered syrup
Cane juice
Cane juice crystals
Cane sugar
Cane syrup
Caramel
Carob syrup
Castor sugar
Coconut sugar
Confectioners’ sugar
Corn glucose syrup
Corn syrup
Corn syrup solids
Date sugar/syrup
Demerara sugar
Dextrose
Drimol
Ethyl maltol
Evaporated cane juice
Flo malt
Florida crystals
Fructose
Fructose sweetener
Fruit juice
Fruit juice concentrate
Glucose
Glucose solids
Golden sugar
Golden syrup
Granular sweetener
Granulated sugar
Grape sugar
High fructose corn syrup (an added sugar derived from corn starch and commonly found in processed foods)
Honey
Honibake
Icing sugar
Inverted sugar (a. k. a. invert sugar)
Isoglucose
Isomaltulose
Kona-ame
Malt syrup
Maltodextrin
Maltose
Maple
Maple sugar
Maple syrup
Mizu-ame
Molasses
Muscovado sugar
Nulomoline
Panela sugar
Powdered sugar
Raw sugar
Refiner’s syrup
Rice syrup
Sorghum syrup
Starch sweetener
Sucanat
Sucrovert
Sugar beet
Treacle or treacle sugar
Turbinado sugar
Unrefined sugar
Yellow sugar

[DryGermanGuy]

The American food industry puts insane amounts of sugar or HFCS into everything, because there are no regulations against it. If you inquire about the obvious health risks they will sing you the song of „making informed decisions“. How well that works you can see in the numbers for child obesity and diabetes.

[Bi4Life]

I honestly have no idea. I’ve found that things are sweeter in America than in other places in the world. Tbh, even the milk is sweeter…..

[Asker]

I heard cows are sometimes fed unsalable candy i wonder if that’s why

[Bi4Life]

Hmm, that could be the case. I hope the cows aren’t being fed candy tho because it’s not good for their digestive system. Ngl, if they can’t digest grass then I have no idea how they’ll digest candy.

[Asker]

Oh you gotta pay extra if you want cows to eat grass here lol

[Bi4Life]

Woah, that's awful!

[Bi4Life]

Thanks for the MHO!

[PBandJ_Nerd]

If you get white bread, it's going to be sweet.

[Asker]

It was brown multigrain but it was still like 😬

[Astarlessnightsky]

No, idea.

But USA has the most sugar consumption per citizen globally, everything is super sweet.

[LiamSawyer]

Have you tried sour dough bread? There's nothing sweet about it.

[Julia1244]

Buy whole weat bread