Although we have spaghetti a lot in this house we almost never have french bread to go along with it. The other day I decided to remedy this and get a loaf of french bread. In the spirit of being healthy I chose to get an organic loaf and the specific loaf that I got was Rudi’s Organic Bakery Country French Bread. Previously I had tried out some of the sandwich breads that this company made and so I was eager to see what their french bread tasted like.
I didn’t want the bread to go bad before I got a chance to use it so I threw it in my freezer after I brought it home. The company recommended that you don’t put their breads in the fridge so they don’t dry out. I certainly did not want this to happen considering the loaf of Rudi’s Organic Bakery Country French Bread was four dollars and seventy nine cents. When the time came to use the bread I was at a loss at how to cook it. Thankfully there were suggestions on the bag of how to bake it, which were to bake it for about ten minutes in an oven preheated to three hundred and seventy five degrees, which is exactly what I did and it didn’t dry out in the little time of baking. I was very happy about this and about the fact that it took so little time to heat up. The loaf filled up two cookie sheets so there was plenty of bread to go around. Some of the pieces I buttered and some I left plain and I thought that both choices tasted wonderful. As I ate the french bread I couldn’t quite but my finger on the difference of this brand and other french breads I have tasted in the past. It tasted great but there was a definite absence of something and then it hit me what it was, that bread didn’t have that processed kind of taste. I couldn’t have been more happier with the taste but I have to admit it doesn’t taste as good as my mom’s homemade bread, but nothing ever does.
I wasn’t really sure what makes french bread but I imagined that it had to do with the ingredients. The ingredients of Rudi’s Organic Bakery Country French Bread are organic unbleached wheat flour, water, organic whole rye flour, sea salt, cultured wheat flour, organic vital wheat gluten, organic high oleic sunflower and/or safflower oil, organic barley malt, yeast, organic oat flour, vinegar, ascorbic acid and natural enzymes. To my surprise the ingredients were very similar to the sandwich breads by this company. I was quite impressed. The nutrition facts were also similar to the other breads. In one slice of this french bread you get one hundred calories and five of them, which is actually about half to a third of what the sandwich breads give you, are from fat. There was two hundred and ten milligrams of sodium and twenty grams of carbohydrates in every serving or slice as well. The bread only offers one gram of sugars and less than one gram of fiber per serving but offers four grams of protein per slice. The remaining nutrients that you get from this bread is thiamin, niacin, folate, riboflavin and iron, and all of which give you two percent of your daily need. Both the nutrition facts and ingredients were very, very pleasing.
As I mentioned above the cost per loaf is a whole four dollars and seventy nine cents. For this reason I will not be getting it every time that I make spaghetti, which is actually quite often but I think that I might do something like get a loaf every once in a while, like every few weeks or once a month, just as a nice healthy treat. I would definitely recommend this bread to anyone who liked french bread or organic bread. Rudi’s Organic Bakery Country French Bread tastes great, has wonderful nutrition facts and ingredients and I am really glad that I tried it and know that I will be getting it again.
