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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

Cooked most in
Europe
Rye bread, cut

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

Cooking with it

Rye flour enzymes can weaken the dough and prevent it from rising.

Nutrition

What 100 g of rye bread holds

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

Protein 14%Fat 5%Carbohydrate 80%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of rye bread
Energy259 kcal · 1,084 kJ
Protein8.5 g
Fat3.3 g
of which saturated0.63 g
Carbohydrate48 g
of which sugars3.9 g
Fibre5.8 g
Sodium603 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of rye bread: minerals and vitamins
Potassium166 mg
Calcium73 mg
Iron2.8 mg
Magnesium40 mg
Zinc1.1 mg
Vitamin C0.4 mg
Folate110 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

1 dish in the catalogue uses rye bread. Here is where they come from.

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

  1. 2017 · Finland

    Finnish rye bread was voted the national food of Finland.

On the table

Dishes made with rye bread

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.
  • 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

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.
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

Names in 54 languages, from Wikidata.
  • 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

Wikidata item: Q3893120

Photos

Photo: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons