Is It Vegan? Pepperidge Farm "Chef's Collection Deli Swirl Rye & Pump" Bread

“In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.”

- George Bernard Shaw 

May your day be filled with bright blue skies, puffy white clouds, and content of the heart my friend!

MADE FROM: UNBROMATED UNBLEACHED

ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED

IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE (VITAMIN B1),

RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2), FOLIC ACID), WATER, RYE

FLOUR, WHEAT GLUTEN, RYE MEAL, YEAST.

CONTAINS 2 PERCENT OR LESS OF:  SOYBEAN OIL,

SALT, CARAMEL COLOR, CARAWAY SEEDS, COCOA

PROCESSED WITH ALKALI (DUTCHED), CALCIUM

PROPIONATE AND SORBIC ACID TO RETARD

SPOILAGE, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, WHEAT

FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, DEXTROSE, SUGAR,

LACTIC ACID, DEHYDRATED ONIONS, DEHYDRATED

GARLIC AND ENZYMES

Pepperidge Farm Swirl Rye & Pump Bread

My Analysis:

Flour – overly processed non-beneficial wheat flour?

Niacin – derived from animal or plant based sources (usually from meats and fish)

Reduced Iron – de-oxified ironoxide (rust)

Thiamine mononitrate – commercially prepared from yeast extract or sardines

Riboflavin - derived from animal or plant based sources. 

Folic acid – the product of bacteria, Lactobacillus Casei

Water – don’t fish tinkle in the stuff?  Just kidding (but they must).

Rye flour – plant based

Wheat gluten – plant based

Rye meal – plant based

Yeast - fungus

Soybean oil – plant based

Salt - mineral

Caramel color – sugars heated in presence of acids, alkalis, or salts

Caraway seeds – plant based

Cocoa – plant based

Alkali – mineral (basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal)

Calcium propionate – mineral (calcium salt of propionic acid)

Sorbic acid – a natural organic compound

Monoglycerides – commercial source may be animal, vegetable, or synthetic

Diglycerides – commercial source may be animal, vegetable, or synthetic

Wheat flour – plant based

Malted barley flour – plant based

Dextrose – plant based sugar (primarily derived from corn)

Sugar – plant based

Lactic acid – milk (animal) based

Dehydrated onions – plant based

Dehydrated garlic – plant based

Enzymes – sources may be animal, plant, other natural, or synthetic

Bread in its simplest form can be baked from nothing more than:  yeast, sugar (to activate the yeast culture), water, flour, salt and oil.  I suppose that you could even omit the oil if you don’t mind a crunchy rock-hard textured loaf?

Chucky is 60% befuddled and 40% bewildered (and 100% nuts).  What in the heck has he and Tiffany been spreading their Earth Balance margarine on???  My very own (first) analysis of ingredients has me re-thinking just how stupid I’ve been.  From day one, I’ve been instructed “If you don’t have the ingredients in your very own kitchen, do you really want to be buying and consuming it?”

I suppose that I am both disappointed and concerned.  After all, the corporate types who “design”, manufacture and market these funktified concoctions (I refuse to call it food) aren’t looking at my best interests, are they?

Hey!  Guess what?  I feel better already!  It’s a new lifestyle and a longer/new life ahead for Chucky and Tiffany.

Hi-dee hi-dee watch-the-metamorphosis-of-vegetarian-gone-vegan-my-friend ho!