Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Waste Bread Finds New Use in Beer in Britain

Bread is a highly perishable product. Under perfect handling and storage condition, a bread product would last only about one week (that is the longest duration in which it would retain its optimal characteristics to be regarded as safe). The moment bread or any baked products leave the oven, it automatically begins a rapid journey into degradation or spoilage.
Unlike some other food products like wine, beer and processed meat; bread does not mature in time. Comparably, bread is like vegetable, and like the later, it cannot be stocked or warehoused.
The high perishable nature of bread is a very big headache to bakers; once its out from the oven the product must be sold off or the baker risks wasting or losing all his effort. Creatively,  there are several ways bakers try to overcome this problem, including recycling or use of the wasted bread as rusk; but this has a huge draw back, especially when the waste is huge.  The fall out from this challenge is that bakers lose handsome money to wasted bread. However, in an innovative approach, some Brits have developed a novel way to solve the problem by using wasted bread to produce craft beer.  Find the story here;
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/12/food-waste-fight-brits-turn-bread-beer/

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