Bread crusts
By gljcleeve
@gljcleeve (147)
April 17, 2013 7:14am CST
I seem to be the only one in my family that like eating the crusts from a loaf of sliced bread. My youngest son even removes the crust from the edges of a slice if he can get away with it. I don't mine getting it all, but not all of the time.
I'm sure that I've heard that the crust is the most nutrisious part of the slice, but I don't know if that is accurate.
Does anyone else have the same problem and o you know if it is the best part?
The birds never seem to object when they get it, so it's not a total waste.
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
17 Apr 13
I don't think that it is any more nutritious and most parents face this with their children. I would save up the crusts and ends of bread in the freezer and then when I had enough would make a bread pudding
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@JohnRok1 (2051)
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18 Apr 13
There is a harmful substance called acrolein that is produced by food if it's heated over 130degreesC, and theoretically there could be more of this in bread crust than in the rest of the bread (you don't need to eat crust that's obviously burnt, but I don't know of people who could trace any illness to having eaten burnt crusts). However, we all run far greater risks than this in our everyday lives.
Probably less vitamins in the crust than in the rest of the bread, but who cares? There's just the same amount of everything else. I happily eat crusts. But I wasn't keen on them when I was little.
Frankly what I really dislike are those sections of the inside of some sliced breads that cleave to your palate with suction and you have to stick something into your mouth to dislodge them. "Best thing since sliced bread"? Who was the person who came up with that idiotic expression?
