Real Bread!

Both of the Carrot's creators bake bread and decided to add this new page to the blog to support others interested in this.
If you don't bake your own bread then ask your local baker/supermarket to supply 'real bread' as defined by the Real Bread Campaign
 
This if from their website:

Real Bread basics

Everyone will have his or her own idea of what constitutes real bread. The Campaign believes that the only essential ingredients of bread are:

• Flour
• Water 
• Yeast - cultured or naturally occurring (as in sourdough), though some flatbreads don't even need yeast
• Salt

This is our definition of basic Real Bread that is accessible to all.
Additional ingredients are great as long as they are natural (e.g. seeds, nuts, cheese, herbs, oils, fats and dried fruits) and contain no artificial additives.

What Real Bread isn't

If you add anything but salt to butter, you have to call it something else; if you add anything at all to milk, it's no longer milk.  So why does similar legal protection not apply to that other staple food: bread?
The making of what we call Real Bread does not involve the use of any processing aids, artificial additives, flour 'improvers', dough conditioners, preservatives, chemical leavening or, well, artificial anything.
Which is more than can be said for many of the products out there that are marketed as bread.
E481 (sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate), E472e (mono- and diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids), E920 (l-cysteine), E282 (calcium propionate), E220 (potassium sorbate), E300 (ascorbic acid), E260 (acetic acid) soya flour, vegetable fat and dextrose are just some of the other things that you might find in an industrial loaf.
What’s more, its production also could have substances including phospholipase, fungal alpha amylase, transglutaminase, xylanase, maltogenic amylase, hemicellulase, oxidase, peptidase and protease but legally, the manufacturer wouldn’t have to declare so on the label.
This could apply to a wrapped/sliced factory loaf or one from a supermarket in-store bakery. The latter does not even have to have an ingredients label to help you make an informed choice.