If you make bread at home, as I often do, it contains flour, yeast, salt and water. It has a great flavour and keeps for quite a few days. Why some commercial bakeries feel the need to put ...

Sourdough starters work by leveraging natural, wild yeasts to make bread rise, but yeast isn't the only living thing inside. These starters also contains ... that ferments all sorts of tasty ...

Salt is needed to control yeast growth, make the dough more stretchy and enhance flavour. All ... white bread, and so keep you going for longer. Wholemeal bread usually also contains more fibre ...

Independent bakers says real sourdough should not contain baker's yeast ... Bread Campaign warned the rules risked "undermining the integrity of the word sourdough, creating a sourfaux free-for-all".