This Ingredient Is in some store bought Bread and it may surprise you “human hair” on purpose

There lurking in your household bread loaf maybe human hair and it should be on the ingredients list called L-cysteine.

Let’s explain. Bread manufacturers don’t throw a handful of human hair into the bread dough just for fun. Instead, they knead in an amino acid called L-cysteine, which is used to lessen dough mixing times as it extends a bread’s shelf-life and helps store bought bread stay fresh for longer periods. We also are consuming chicken feathers/cow horn/ pig bristle by products because they are also made into this amino acid. Bakerpedia.com says , China is the largest world producer which is retrieved by boiling one or several of the above protein sources. L-cysteine does not harm you because it’s a natural ingredient. There is some good news on the horizon for bread addicts. Bakerpedia.com reports that several vegetable-based alternatives are out there. To name a few brands that don’t use L-cysteine in bread making include Dempster’s, Country Harvest, and Old Mill . Your local baker doesn’t normally use L-cysteine because the bread is made fresh instore…The first loaf of pre-sliced bread went on sale on this date July 7, 1928, in Chillicothe, Montana. It was made available at a bakery owned by M. Frank Bench, ….Ed

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