Rye bread
Rye bread is made with rye flour and may also contain wheat flour, caraway seeds, molasses, or caramel. Cooks bake the dough to make bread.
- Gluten depends on the product
About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details
- Category
- Breads & baking
- Cooked most in
- Europe
- Dishes
- 1 in the catalogue
- Energy
- 259 kcal per 100 g

Photo: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
In the kitchen
How to use rye bread
Typical ways to cook or use it
- Bake
Made from
- rye flour
- wheat flour (sometimes)
- caraway seeds (sometimes)
- molasses (sometimes)
- caramel (sometimes)
Cooking with it
Rye flour enzymes can weaken the dough and prevent it from rising.
Nutrition
What 100 g of rye bread holds
Protein 14%Fat 5%Carbohydrate 80%of the macronutrients by weight
| Energy | 259 kcal · 1,084 kJ |
|---|---|
| Protein | 8.5 g |
| Fat | 3.3 g |
| of which saturated | 0.63 g |
| Carbohydrate | 48 g |
| of which sugars | 3.9 g |
| Fibre | 5.8 g |
| Sodium | 603 mg |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Potassium | 166 mg |
|---|---|
| Calcium | 73 mg |
| Iron | 2.8 mg |
| Magnesium | 40 mg |
| Zinc | 1.1 mg |
| Vitamin C | 0.4 mg |
| Folate | 110 µg |
Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 172684), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.
Around the world
Where rye bread is cooked
Dishes by continent
Countries whose dishes use it most
- Estonia 1
Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list rye bread among their ingredients.
Origins
2017 · Finland
Finnish rye bread was voted the national food of Finland.
On the table
Dishes made with rye bread
Kiluvõileib
Estonia
Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include rye bread.
Good to know
Diet and allergens: rye bread in detail
- Gluten
- Depends on the product (only when the optional ingredient is used)
Family
Related forms
- A kind of
- bread
Around the world
What rye bread is called
Spanish
pan de centeno
French
pain de seigle
Italian
pane nero · pane di segale
Portuguese
pão de centeio
German
Roggenbrot
Dutch
roggebrood
Greek
ψωμί σικάλεως · ψωμί σίκαλης
Turkish
çavdar ekmeği
Russian
ржаной хлеб · чёрный хлеб
Polish
chleb żytni
Arabic
خبز الشيلم · خبز الشولم · خبز الشالم · خبز الجاودار
Persian
نان چاودار
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Afrikaans
rogbrood
Armenian
տարեկանի հաց
Asturian
pan de centén · pan de centenu
Azerbaijani
çovdar çörəyi
Basque
zekale-ogi
Belarusian
жытні хлеб
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
жытні хлеб
Cantonese
黑麥包
Catalan
pa de sègol · pa negre
Chinese
裸麥麵包 · 黑麦面包
Croatian
raženi kruh
Czech
žitný chléb
Danish
rugbrød
Egyptian Arabic
عيش الجاودار
Erzya
рошксе
Esperanto
sekalpano
Estonian
rukkileib
Finnish
ruisleipä
Galician
pan de centeo · pan centeo
Hebrew
לחם שיפון
Hungarian
rozskenyér
Indonesian
roti hitam · roti gandum hitam
Japanese
ライ麦パン · ロゲンブロード · ライパン · ロッゲンブロート
Javanese
roti rye
Korean
호밀빵
Kurdish
nanê tarîganê
Kurdish (Arabic)
نانێ تاریگانێ
Kurdish (Latin)
nanê tarîganê
Latvian
rudzu maize
Lithuanian
ruginė duona
Low German
Groffbroot
Low Saxon
roggemik · brood
Macedonian
'ржан леб
Malay
Roti rai
Maltese
ħobż tas-segala
Northern Sami
rohkaláibi · roavvaláibi
Norwegian Bokmål
rugbrød
Norwegian Nynorsk
rugbrød
Serbian
ражени хлеб
Skolt Sami
čaʹppesleiʹbb
Slovenian
rženi kruh
Swedish
rågbröd
Ukrainian
житній хліб
Vietnamese
bánh mì đen · bánh mì lúa mạch
Welsh
bara rhyg
Western Frisian
roggebrea
Sources and credits
Data
- GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
- USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
- Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
- Wikimedia Commons: photos
- Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata item: Q3893120
Photos
Photo: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons