Is your bread healthy? Try The Bread Health Calculator

Healthy Bread: Evaluating Your Loaf’s Nutritional Value

Use our simple tool to determine if the bread you are buying making is healthy.

Evaluate if your bread is healthy. Our comprehensive tool evaluates if your bread is health for both commercial and artisan breads

In today’s health-conscious world, knowing if your bread is truly healthy is more important than ever. Whether you’re baking at home or buying from a supermarket or artisan bakery, it’s crucial to evaluate the nutritional value of your bread. Our easy-to-use evaluation tool simplifies this process, giving you a score to determine if the bread you’re buying or baking is healthy. This guide will help you understand the various aspects that contribute to a healthy loaf, from the type of flour used to the fermentation process, fibre content, and potential agrochemical residues. By the end, you’ll have a thorough understanding of how to determine if the bread you’re consuming meets your health standards.

How to use the calculator

1. Pick up your loaf and examine the ingredients list and nutrition label.
2. Check for key factors: whole grain content, % fibre content, and see if there are any detail on milling process,
3. If it does not say regenerative agriculture or organic, then the grains will have been grown conventionally and subject to agrochemical exposure
4. The list of additives is not all additives I have just listed some but there may be more.
5. If yeast is mentioned then choose unspecified fermentation
6. If it says Sourdough and yeast choose unspecified Fermentation
7. If it says sourdough but not “retarded” or Cold fermented then choose ambient fermentation not specified
8. If it doesn’t say stoneground flour then assume roller milled flour.
9. Enter details into the form and click “Calculate Score” for your bread’s health evaluation.
10. Talk to the baker, look up details on website and dig deeper.

Let me know how you get on. I would be so delighted if you can share the brand and your score with me on comments below on on social media.

Best

Dr Vanessa Kimbell