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White bread

White bread is a kind of bread made with wheat flour. Cooks treat it as bread dough.

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

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

Cooked most in
Europe, The Americas
Top country
Austria
White bread, cut

Photo: Evan Swigart from Chicago, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use white bread

Made from

Around the world

Where white bread is cooked

5 dishes in the catalogue use white bread. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

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

On the table

Dishes made with white bread

4 of the 5 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Pan-bagnat

    France

  • Kaspressknödel

    Austria

  • Hot beef commercial

    United States

  • Novomikhailovsk cutlets

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: white 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.
Allergens
Contains: wheat, gluten cereals
Gluten
Contains

Family

Related forms

A kind of
bread

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What white bread is called

Names in 46 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    pan blanco

  • French

    pain blanc

  • Italian

    pane bianco

  • Portuguese

    pão branco

  • German

    Weißbrot · Weizenbrot · Weissbrot

  • Dutch

    witbrood · wittebrood

  • Greek

    λευκό ψωμί

  • Turkish

    Beyaz ekmek

  • Russian

    белый хлеб · пшеничный хлеб · сдобный хлеб

  • Polish

    białe pieczywo

  • Arabic

    خبز أبيض

  • Persian

    نان سفید

Show all 46 languages

  • Armenian

    Սպիտակ հաց

  • Basque

    Ogi zuri

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    белы хлеб

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    pão branco

  • Bulgarian

    Бял хляб

  • Cantonese

    方包

  • Catalan

    pa blanc

  • Chinese

    白面包 · 方包

  • Czech

    bílý chléb

  • Danish

    franskbrød

  • Egyptian Arabic

    عيش ابيض

  • Esperanto

    blanka pano

  • Estonian

    Sai

  • Finnish

    vehnäleipä · vaalea leipä

  • Galician

    pan branco

  • Hebrew

    לחם לבן

  • Hungarian

    fehér kenyér · fehérkenyér

  • Indonesian

    roti putih

  • Japanese

    イングリッシュ・ブレッド · 白パン · 精白パン · ヴァイツェンブロート

  • Javanese

    Roti putih

  • Korean

    화이트 브레드

  • Latvian

    baltmaize

  • Low German

    Wittbroot

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    loff · franskbrød

  • Old English

    hwithlaf

  • Romanian

    pâine albă

  • Serbian

    бели хлеб

  • Simplified Chinese

    白面包

  • Slovenian

    bel kruh

  • Swedish

    vitt bröd

  • Swiss High German

    Weissbrot

  • Tatar

    ак ипи · ак икмәк

  • Thai

    ขนมปังขาว

  • Tigrinya

    ጻዕዳ ባኒ

  • Traditional Chinese

    白麵包

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    白麵包

  • Ukrainian

    білий хліб

  • Uzbek

    Oq non

  • Vietnamese

    Bánh mì trắng · Bánh mỳ trắng

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q1501889

Photos

Photo: Evan Swigart from Chicago, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons