I am starting this review with my title "Do you know what's in it?" because I have spent a lot of time researching this humble loaf of bread and have been amazed by what I have found!!!
Tesco value white sliced bread comes in packs of 800g it is either normal thickness or thick sliced, either ... Read review
Advantages: Very Very cheep! Disadvantages: Rubbish ingredients!!
...have found!!!
Tesco value white sliced bread comes in packs of 800g it is either normal thickness or thick sliced, either way you are getting 800g and they are both the same very low price of just 19p, that's 2p per 100g. The medium thickness loaf contains approx 20 slices and obviously the thick loaf a little less.
Each 100g provides 243 kcal, 7.9g protein, 49g carbs of which 3.5g are sugars, 1.6g fat of which 0.4g ... ...
In May 2004 Tesco made a promise to its customers that they would begin labelling Trans fat quantities on their own brand products. They have now reneged.
They are now saying they are not going to do it after all "as there is no legal obligation to do so" But that was the case when they made the promise!!!!
You can help the Campaign against Trans Fats in Food (tfx.org.uk) by writing to Tesco asking ... more
I am starting this review with my title "Do you know what's in it?" because I have spent a lot of time researching this humble loaf of bread and have been amazed by what I have found!!!
Tesco value white sliced bread comes in packs of 800g it is either normal thickness or thick sliced, either way you are getting 800g and they are both the same very low price of just 19p, that's 2p per 100g. The medium thickness loaf contains approx 20 slices and obviously the thick loaf a little less.
Each 100g provides 243 kcal, 7.9g protein, 49g carbs of which 3.5g are sugars, 1.6g fat of which 0.4g are saturates, 0.8g are mono-unsaturated and 0.4g are polyunsaturated, 2.6g of fibre and 0.5g of sodium.
I bought my loaf on the 15th of May and the sell by date is the 20th, the use by date is the 21st, so as you can see it has quite a long shelf life but once it is open you really need to eat it that day.
Back to the title! The bag has quite a long list of ingredients so I thought I would research then a bit to help you decide if you really want to be putting all these substances into you body,
Wheat Flour ``````````````` Flour is obtained from grinding grain, the most common is wheat. Wheat flour is very high in gluten because it is milled from hard wheat; gluten is needed to trap the gasses produced by the yeast allowing the bread to rise. Beware allergy sufferers!
Water ``````` I don't think I need to explain this one!
Yeast ``````` We all know that yeast makes bread rise, but what is yeast? Yeast is a by product of whisky distillers, it is a plant which is capable of reproducing itself if fed sugar; it can be killed off by starvation or by heat. A piece of yeast is made up of minute cells made of cellulose with an inferior living matter called protoplasm.
Soya Flour ````````````` Soya flour is milled from Soya beans and is very cheep to produce it is said that Soya flour could end world starvation but there is a massive problem! It is a devil to cook; this is why it only forms part of the flour content in our loaf of bread just to keep the cost down!
Salt ````` This is added for taste and it also helps kill off the yeast during baking.
Now the next ingredients have made it to the big time in the health world recently, it has become the one set of words I look for in the list of ingredients and stay well away from normally!
Hydrogenated vegetable oil `````````````````````````````````` Hydrogenated fats are more commonly known as Trans fats these are fats that have been damaged by prolonged exposure to high temperatures. During this heat process of hydrogenation the molecules change shape, these molecules are clogging up our arteries. A recent Study at Harvard School of Public Health has shown that 500 - 20000 people in the UK are dying prematurely from coronary heart disease as a result of eating Trans fats.
Still want that slice of toast?
Now I don't want to bore you and I will get round to telling you what this "Killer" tastes like but there is some more very important facts I must tell you!
All of these wonderful damaging, allergy inducing, and cheep ingredients need preservatives!!!!!!!!!
Now this section has really stunned me, I have a nephew with ADS I think that's right, in other words he is hypo and causes trouble wherever he goes! Now we have always been told to keep him away from E numbers, so looking at this bag of bread I would think that he could have some but they are in Disguise!!!!!!!!!!
Potassium Sorbate is on the list of ingredients I didn't know until researching this review that it is in fact E202. Calcium Propionate is also there now that sounds quite good to me calcium we all need that don't we? Well not this one it's E282 which is used to prevent germination of some types of bacteria that cause yellow patches in bread that also explains the long shelf life!!!!!
Both of these E's can be irritants so why hide them from us?
In May 2004 Tesco made a promise to its customers that they would begin labelling Trans fat quantities on their own brand products. They have now reneged.
They are now saying they are not going to do it after all "as there is no legal obligation to do so" But that was the case when they made the promise!!!!
You can help the Campaign against Trans Fats in Food (tfx.org.uk) by writing to Tesco asking them why they have broken their promise!!
Now I have said all that I have a slice in front of me it smells fresh and very yeasty it is so soft it almost falls apart when I hold one corner and as a put a small piece in my mouth it just melts away. The taste is too yeasty for me and I feel it will give me indigestion very easily.
Taste test 2 is a toasted slice I left it in the toaster on setting 2 so it's just golden brown, it is so crisp it will snap as I spread my butter on it! The texture is more like a cracker bread than toast, not very appealing at all and has now become a gooey mess in my mouth - back in a mo got to clean my teeth YUK!
That's better, I think I have review this loaf of bread as much as I can, thanks for reading and be careful what you put in your body after all you are what you eat!
I'm now going to give the rest of the loaf to my chickens, hope it doesn't make them lay soft eggs!
Tesco value Sliced bread
Well after my op on Tesco value beans what to follow but Tesco value sliced bread. Then you can make Tesco value beans on toast.
I do not often eat value sliced bread. I sometimes buy one for the freezer if I am going away so that I have some bread when I get home without going to the shops.
When Sleepydormouse was a student she lived on Value bread. It is cheap and filling for those on a low income..
Tesco value bread ... ...a plastic bag with the Tesco value blue and red design, easily recognisable..
As I said I often have one in the freezer for emergencies. This bread is not available in frozen form at the supermarket. It is conveniently sliced so easy to break of just a few slices straight from the freezer to make toast and the slices fit well into my toaster. I buy the thick loaf the other being to thin. I like my bread thick anyway.
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mumsymary 19.05.2003
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Advantages: Extremely Cheap, Relatively Large Sized, Great Texture Disadvantages: Squash Easily, Not always available in Metro Stores
...from the local Asda or Tesco every now and again but as our household weekly shop was so large when put into perspective, it was becoming more and more expensive. Even though we never bought all of our shopping for the week in one go, here is an average list of basics that my household would consume within 7 days...
> 8 Loaves
> 20 + Pints of Milk
> 10 Tins of beans/spaghetti etc
> 3 500g tubs margarine
The most expensive thing was the bread, ... ...the sandwiches actually sold by Tesco are made using this bread.
The loaf itself comes in two different varieties: thick (blue label) and medium sliced (red label), which both cost 19p each. There is also no limit to how many loaves you can buy in one transaction as well, which would normally be the case with something so cheap.
I have noticed though, that, even though you can get this bread in all larger Tesco stores, you cannot always get it ...
ciaomc 27.03.2003 (25.07.2003)
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== TESCO VALUE BREAD ==
"Without bread all is misery." The author of this quote (William Cobbitt) had obviously not sampled Tesco's Value bread!!! The Oldchem household is like the Bermuda Triangle when it comes to bread. Any bread coming close to us seems to disappear unexplainably within seconds. We can be running along quite nicely, and there be plenty of bread in the breadbin, then my son will come in from school, drop his school bag in the ... ...the word very loosely) of Tesco Value Medium Bread. Now what I can't understand is that when, on the few occasions I dare to, send Mr Oldchem shopping, he NEVER looks at prices and usually ends up buying the most expensive of everything, but he was very proud of himself for purchasing a loaf for 47p!! So what did I think of his purchase? As there may be children reading this review, I will choose my words carefully!! === THE PACKAGE ===
A plastic ...
oldchem 18.09.2009
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Is that title in dubious taste? Pah, I care not. It's Friday evening and almost pub time. On with the review!
Fifteen years ago, everybody used to eat white bread. Only hippies and gays ate brown bread, and there was certainly no such thing as wholemeal. Of course, I lived in Yorkshire fifteen years ago, so it might just have been us being a bit backward. But now, honestly, unless your loaf is caked in two inches of sunflower seeds and stuffed full ... ...nothing but a stupid idiot. I hate that.
For your information, 'those people', I happen to like white bread. I like it soft and floppy, so that it goes a bit soggy when you make a cheese and tomato sandwich. And if that makes me some kind of sad eighties throwback, which it doesn't, then fine, I'm a sad eighties throwback, which I'm not. Frankly, you can keep your multigrain goodness, put it on a pedestal, shine a spotlight on it and go 'Aah, look ...
bluefrog199 27.04.2007
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Advantages: very cheap, ok if you are on a serious budget Disadvantages: goes mouldy quickly, not very tasty
...goes on.
.... not Tesco Value bread!
The Cost
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As you would expect, Tesco Value bread is cheap. Very cheap! Currently it is 23p per 800g loaf in my local Tesco store. Whereas most high quality loaves cost in excess of 85p for the same sized loaf you would be forgiven for thinking that the Tesco loaf represents much better value. Wrong.
You pay for what you get and with this in mind the fact thet you are paying only 23p for a loaf ... ...not a big fan of Tesco Value bread. I do buy it occasionally when I am a bit hard up but I certainly do not like it. THe quality is very poor and I tend to find that 9 times out of 10 the loaf is stale when I buy it, let alone when its been in the breadbin for a few days. The one thing that suprises me more than anything else is how quickly the bread can go mouldy.
I make sandwiches to take to work and when I make the sandwiches the night before ...
TheHairyGodmother 25.02.2007
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