Ralph's Club Rolls

You know that since I made pot roast, I was gonna make a sandwich. This is the bread I bought. It's from the Ralph's bakery and it's got a huge ingredient statement.

Click on the image to read the statement or skip it and read what I read and saw below.

Ingredients: enriched unbleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, yeast, vegetable shortening (partially hydrogenated soybean and or cottonseed, and/or canola oils), contains 2% or less of each of the following: salt, sugar, dextrose, soy flour, diacetyl acid esters of mono & diglycerides, calcium stearoyl lactylate enzyme, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, L'cysteine. Spray ingredients: water, corn sweeteners, modified starch, maltodextrin, vegetable gums, citric acid, potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate (used as preservatives).

Here's what I saw when I read all of that above:

Ingredients: enriched unbleached flour (wheat flour, vitamin B3, iron your body will more readily be able to use, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B9), water, yeast, shortening; 2% or less of: salt, sucrose, dextrose, soy flour, emulsifiers to aid in mixing, more emulsifier to aid in mixing, Vitamin C, gluten-development agent also a possible source of asthma and primarily used in plastics, amino acid and dough softener used to reduce process time. Spray ingredients: water, corn syrups, anti-drip agent, glucose, food thickener, Vitamin C, preservative and preservative (used as preservatives).

The scariest thing in there is the azodicarbonamide. If you walk around on the 'net, you'll find it's primarily used in plastics and there are sites that tell you it's the FDA's way of "hiding" bromine in the food you eat. Sure, it might not be the healthiest thing in the world, but I doubt the genetically modified food we eat on a daily basis is either. As for the bromine, I didn't see a single Br in the molecular structure of azodicarbonamide, so we can all relax on that one.

This is an example of what the rolls look like. It's funny that it and the others are concave. I'm not sure why that is.


Club rolls available at Ralph's in a pack of 6 for $3.99, or $0.67 each.

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