The bread on our table

Bread is the most practical human food. It offers high-quality carbohydrates in combination with low level of fat and low level of proteins. This makes it a good food that can be both used for gaining and losing weight.


Where does the bread come from?

The word “hliab” (bread in Bulgarian) probably comes from the Gothic word “hlaifs”, which is probably also the origin of the words “leipä” in Finnish and “leib” in Estonian, which are distantly related to “Leib” (”body” in German). It seems that bread was originally associated with the body of Christ, in the same way as… read more