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Baguette

Also called French bread and French stick

A baguette is a crisp bread made with wheat flour, water, yeast, and salt. Serve it with cheese, butter, or jam.

  • Contains gluten
  • Allergen: wheat
  • Allergen: gluten cereals

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Texture
Crisp
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
Belgium
Baguette, whole

Photo: jules / stonesoup · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use baguette

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Crisp

Nutrition

What 100 g of baguette holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 17%Fat 4%Carbohydrate 80%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of baguette
Energy272 kcal · 1,139 kJ
Protein11 g
Fat2.4 g
of which saturated0.53 g
Carbohydrate52 g
of which sugars4.6 g
Fibre2.2 g
Sodium602 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of baguette: minerals and vitamins
Potassium117 mg
Calcium52 mg
Iron3.9 mg
Magnesium32 mg
Zinc1 mg
Folate123 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 172675), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where baguette is cooked

3 dishes in the catalogue use baguette. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list baguette among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. 1920 · France

    A Seine department regulation used the name baguette for a particular bread.

On the table

Dishes made with baguette

3 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Martino

    Belgium

  • Dagobert

    Belgium

  • Mitraillette

    Belgium

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include baguette.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: baguette in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: wheat, gluten cereals
Gluten
Contains

Family

Related forms

A kind of
bread

Around the world

What baguette is called

Names in 71 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    baguette · baguete · pan francés

  • French

    baguette · baguette de pain · pain français

  • Italian

    baguette · baghetta

  • Portuguese

    baguete · baguetes

  • German

    Stangenweißbrot · Franzosenbrot · Pariserbrot · Stangenbrot

  • Dutch

    stokbrood · flûte · baguette · flute

  • Greek

    μπαγκέτα

  • Turkish

    francala · baget

  • Russian

    французский багет · французскaя багета · французскaя багетa · французская булка

  • Polish

    bagietka · bagietka (pieczywo)

  • Arabic

    باغيت · باجيت · خبز فرنسي · عصا فرنسي

  • Persian

    باگت · نان باگت

Show all 71 languages

  • Afrikaans

    baguette

  • Albanian

    baguette

  • Algerian Arabic

    باڨيط

  • Armenian

    ֆրանսիական բագետ

  • Azerbaijani

    baget çörəyi · baget

  • Bangla

    বাগেট

  • Basque

    baguette

  • Belarusian

    французскі багет

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    багет · францускі багет · француская булка

  • Bulgarian

    франзела · багета

  • Cantonese

    百吉包

  • Catalan

    baguet · baguette

  • Chinese

    法式长棍面包 · 法式棍 · 法式长棍 · 法国面包

  • Chuvash

    багет · Франс багечĕ

  • Croatian

    baguette

  • Czech

    bageta

  • Danish

    baguette · baguetter

  • Egyptian Arabic

    باجيت · عيش فرنساوى · عصا فرنساوى

  • Esperanto

    bastonpano

  • Estonian

    baguette

  • Finnish

    patonki

  • Galician

    bagueta

  • Georgian

    ბაგეტი

  • Haitian Creole

    bagèt

  • Hebrew

    בגט · באגט

  • Hindi

    बगेट

  • Hungarian

    baguette

  • Iban

    Baguette

  • Inari Sami

    patoŋk

  • Indonesian

    baguette

  • Irish

    baguette

  • Japanese

    バゲット · バタール · フランスパン

  • Javanese

    baguette

  • Kazakh

    багета

  • Korean

    바게트 · 바게트빵

  • Kurdish

    baguette

  • Latvian

    bagete

  • Lingua Franca Nova

    bagete

  • Lithuanian

    prancūziškas batonas · bagetė

  • Macedonian

    багет

  • Malay

    baguette

  • Malayalam

    ബാഗെറ്റ്

  • Maltese

    bagett

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    bagett · franskbrød · pariserloff · baguette

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    bagett · baguette · bagettar

  • Picard

    badgète · badgète (pain)

  • Punjabi

    ਬਾਗੇਤ

  • Serbian

    багет · француски хлеб

  • Serbian (Latin)

    baget · baguette

  • Simplified Chinese

    法式长棍面包

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    法式长棍面包

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    法式长棍面包

  • sjd

    багеһт · багет

  • Slovak

    bageta

  • Slovenian

    bageta

  • Swedish

    baguette · bagett · baguetter

  • Tamil

    பகெத் · பாகெத்து · பகெத்து · பேகத்

  • Tatar

    француз багет икмәге

  • Thai

    บาแก็ต · ขนมปังฝรั่งเศส

  • Traditional Chinese

    法式長棍麵包

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    法式長棍麵包

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    法式長棍麵包

  • Ukrainian

    французький багет

  • Urdu

    باگیت

  • Vietnamese

    bánh mì Pháp · bánh mỳ Pháp

  • Western Panjabi

    باگیت

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q208172

Photos

Photo: jules / stonesoup · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons