WTF … Human hair in bread!

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I’m spitting feathers here … recently I've read several articles like This one that details (amongst other vomit inducing stuff) how human hair is processed and added to mass factory produced bread 🤢 🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢 This ‘amino acid’ is to extend shelf life!

AIBU to never buy or feed mass produced bread to my nearest and dearest?

"It's OK it's not penis, just penis molecules"

... :(

I bake all our own bread so I know exactly what goes into it for the family. We love our hot crusty rolls in the morning. To think the masses are stuffing down human hair ! DS and DD know not to eat processed bread when out.

One of the very few times I have been grateful for coeliac disease. I don’t eat bread at all because gluten free bread is utterly vile. Now I know all bread is vile, I won’t ever feel jealous when I see anyone chowing down on an almond croissant!

This is one of the reasons I make my own bread.

This is what Warburtons say on the matter (E920 is L-cysteine):

“Warburtons uses a flour treatment agent (E920) in some baked goods. The E920 that we use is synthetically produced through natural fermentation or enzymic processes using raw materials of vegetable origin or pure organic, non animal, compounds. All of our baked goods are 100% suitable for vegetarians.”

So in the UK, bread DOESN'T contain human hair? Poor journalism strikes again.

Hi @FarmGirl78 im trying to identify if it does or doesn’t. Conflicting stuff on-line. As you say poor journalism churning out click bait tripe.

Every article on Apple News that starts "People are only just realising...." is click bait nonsense.

Pretty sure there's worse going on in the food industry.
I do own a bread machine though. So at least I know where the hair comes from if there's any in my bread...

I agree - unless you are vegan why do you care really?

It seems we don't have "hair bread" in the UK anyway, but is something derived from human hair any more disgusting than eating the flesh of other animals? Drinking animal milk? Chowing down on unfertilized eggs? Gelatine? Black pudding?

I found a face article online which states Warburtons, Allison's, Asda all use a synthetic L Cysteine. PHEW!

I can see what you mean but I just feel yuk about people ingesting human body parts iyswim … almost canabolistic 🤢🤮🤢🤮

That’s excellent … perhaps we could email the reporters involved in reporting fake news. It really is annoying.

Yes, just from a sensory perspective eating hair or feathers is more disgusting to than eating eg: a steak, and eating bits of people could even be seen as cannibalistic by some people, which is one of the most fortunately-evolved disgust reactions we have, given how unhealthy it can be.

Eating animals and produce is healthy, delicious and generally grounded in much more natural, pre industrial revolution ways of doing things than the alternatives. I think people will fall back in love with these things when start facing sub zero temperatures + starvation + energy poverty.

Ho hum, though. A discussion for another topic, sorry.

derived from human hair is illegal in the EU
Shame about Brexit, eh?

But even in "hairy bread" from China, there's not actual hair in it. The compound is just derived from human hair.

It's extracted via hydrolysis, you don't have someone's matted old perm kneaded into the dough 😅

I'm not saying it's appetising, I just don't see that it's any more disgusting than many of the other practices involved in intensive farming and food production.

There is no hair in bread in the UK. L cysteine is synthetically produced. Nothing to do with brexit either. It is illegal in the UK whether we are in or out of the E U. That is not going to change

Even if it were <screams> literal hair I just can't get worked up about it. I eat meat, I guess if hair in and of itself was tasty enough I'd eat that too.

I must be weird as I can't even get worked up about dead human meat. It's not optimum, obviously, but come the Revolution and the zombie apocalypse you'll wish you too had a cast iron stomach like mine ( and it appears, no conscience either).

@greenspaces4peace
These don't have any of the weird ingredients in! I try to make my own but its such a faff, even with a stand mixer with a dough hook etc. I hate rolling stuff out. I'm indian and I don't get how the women in my family stand there and handmake a bajillion chapatis and naans !!!