Comments on: Healthy bread without preservatives

By: Cinnamon rolls at Penang Adventist Bakery | The Food Site

Cinnamon rolls at Penang Adventist Bakery | The Food Site — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:04:01 +0000

[...] Finally, the Penang Adventist Bakery still do sell a variety of healthy wholemeal and sprouted bread suitable for diabetics and those watching their health. However, not all of it is as good as the bread at Rainforest Bakery. [...]

By: Foong

Foong — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:33:41 +0000

engineer: aiyah…making own bread is healthy but no time lar…

ck lam: thanks! I will add you too.

By: ck lam @what2see

ck lam @what2see — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:39:53 +0000

I am also a great fan of Rainforest Bakery and have an article on it in my blog too… I normally go for the rye bread and the volkron which cost around RM5 and RM10 respectively. Still able to maintained its freshness when kept in freezer.

I find your blog very interesting and informative and have link it to mine.

By: engineer

engineer — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:49:02 +0000

You people so worried about preservatives….go bake your own lor.
Can buy bread making machine about the size of a rice cooker.
You can also buy bread mix from super market.

Just mix the bread mix at night, put into the machine and let the yeast do it’s work overnight. Set the timer on the machine and bingo…..you wake up to the heavenly smell of freshly baked bread in the morning.

Some Mata Biru loves this but to me not worth the trouble. I rather walk down the street and eat nasi lemak or laksa or one-ton mee, washed down by a couple of cups of kopi.

By: Foong

Foong — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:13:28 +0000

engineer: I am also very tam chiak lar. Only occasionally have to remember to be a bit health conscious, after all, got a small kid to jaga mah.

Mun: usually the ones sold at supermarkets are the ones full of preservatives. But then it is really unavoidable since most packaged foods are preserved.

Foongpc: For a moment there, i thought I had gone nyanyuk and wrote a comment I don’t remember! LOL. Gardenia bread sucks. If you leave it at room temperature for weeks also it won’t grow mold, but it will harden. This shows how ‘well preserved’ it is.

By: Foongpc

Foongpc — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:49:14 +0000

Oops! I realise we have similar name. So I shall use foongpc instead of foong to avoid confusion! : )

By: Foong

Foong — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:47:57 +0000

I usually get my wholemeal bread from The Bakery Moments, over here in KL. I do know Gardenia has lots of preservatives and I really don’t know how they can possibly promote their bread as healthy. But mostly people are just plain ignorant.

By: Mun

Mun — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:33:07 +0000

Yes, it is indeed hard to get bread without preservative nowadays. I normally opt for the wholemeal bread in supermarket. As for kaya, my mum supplies it – home made version.

By: engineer

engineer — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:30:51 +0000

I am a glutton and wallop everything…..hahaha.

Went you have to go, you gotta go….so don’t worry too much lah.

I am not a big bread eater, gimme my nasi lemak in the mornings and my one-ton mee in the afternoons and glutton lane in the evenings.

Obviously I do not eat to live. I live to eat.

By: Foong

Foong — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:59:16 +0000

engineer: I beg to differ in this case. The bread by Rainforest is actually one of the best, it tastes better than plain white bread. And yes, it is very soft too. It is the only kind of bread my fussy toddler would ever eat.
They also sell preservative-free kaya so if I do go for kaya, I’d get it from them. If not, I usually put preservative and sugar free jam or make my own egg sandwich. Or better still, put pure butter (which is also preservative free and actually better than margarine if taken in moderation because margarine contains chemicals while butter don’t)