Freshness Guaranteed French Bread — TREAT

Munch or Dump rates Freshness Guaranteed French Bread by Freshness Guaranteed (Walmart) TREAT — score 43/90.

As clean as a dollar supermarket loaf gets — but it's still refined white flour finished with industrial dough conditioners. Real French bread is four ingredients; this needed twelve. Fine for garlic bread night, not a health food.

Why this verdict

• Enriched white flour is the entire base — fast starch, fiber stripped out
• DATEM and ammonium sulfate are factory dough conditioners; a scratch bakery uses neither
• Short 12-item list, only one added sugar, and no preservatives — that's what keeps it out of DUMP
• Zero-fiber refined bread eats like sugar with a crust

Ingredients (7)

• Enriched wheat flour (moderate) — Refined flour stripped of bran then fortified - the crust base.
• datem (caution) — Industrial dough emulsifier used to engineer texture and rise.
• Ammonium sulfate (moderate) — Yeast nutrient — a fertilizer chemical doing double duty in dough.
• Sugar (moderate) — Added for sweetness, can contribute to calorie content.
• Soybean Oil (moderate) — Refined vegetable oil for body and mouthfeel.
• ascorbic acid (moderate) — A common refined oil that adds to calorie content.
• Vital Wheat Gluten (moderate) — Isolated gluten protein used to strengthen and puff the crust — an industrial dough additive.