Bread

Abstract

Bread is a fast and convenient food based on wheat. There are many varieties of bread depending upon the local demand like whole flour bread, brown bread, bread fortified with vitamins and minerals, milk bread and bread for diabetic patients. Its consumption is more in cities and towns where industrial working group population is more. Bread and biscuit consumption is increasing day by day and these are being increasingly used for various feeding programmes for children managed by voluntary agencies and State Departments of Health. The raw material required for bread is wheat flour/ maida which is available in plenty in the country considering increase in wheat production from 26 million tonnes in early 1950 to 54 million tonnes as of today. The manufacture of bread is exclusively reserved for small scale sector.