As part of my duty to this blog, I try a lot of products I wouldn’t normally buy. Gluten Free bread is high on that list. I’m not trying to be Gluten Free. I love all my gluten products. But I understand.
I have a family member that has been celiac for many decades and can’t touch the stuff. He shops at Trader Joe’s all the time. It’s one of his favorite grocery stores because of the amount of Gluten Free products they carry. In order to help him, I’ve been doing as many Gluten Free reviews as I possibly can.
One of the most basic things that most people love is the bread and is one of the hardest Gluten Free things to get right. The taste, the texture, the appearance. It can go wrong fast.
I don’t know when, but in the past couple of years, Trader Joe’s has moved a lot of their Gluten Free bread products to their own area, usually right next to the existing lineup of bread.
For those of us that like regular wheat bread, it’s come at a cost of less options. That’s OK, I always thought that Trader Joe’s had an abundant selection of normal bread. It’s one of the things I really like about my local Trader Joe’s is that I can mostly count on a decent loaf at a good price.
OK, on to the Gluten Free Whole Grain Bread with Brown rice, sorghum, Amaranth, and Teff. I know what the rest of those grains are but never heard of Teff. Had to look that one up. “Eragrostis tef, also known as teff, Williams lovegrass or annual bunchgrass, is an annual grass, a species of lovegrass native to the Horn of Africa, notably what is today modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is cultivated for its edible seeds, also known as teff.” Well OK, that’s some cool stuff.
The first thing you notice is how small the loaf of bread is. I would say it’s half to a 1/3 the size of a regular sandwich loaf you would see at a mainstream grocery store.
The whole loaf only weighs in at 12oz when a normal loaf would be about twice that. When you take it out of the bag, the slices are so small! I took a picture with a quarter next to it, so maybe it’s 4 inches wide. If I was making a sandwich, I’d have to make two of them because it’s really, really small.
But we aren’t here to talk about the size. How does it taste? Just like whole-wheat bread. I ate a piece without doing anything to it and found it to have a flavor and texture so similar to whole wheat bread, that I could barely tell the difference.
The holes and the mouthfeel and everything about it are just like regular bread. I am impressed. I toasted a piece to see what it would do and it toasted up just like regular bread and tasted wonderful with a little butter on it if a little small! 😉 The only small hint that you aren’t dealing with gluten is there was a slight gumminess when I chewed it too long, but I doubt you would be able to tell the difference.
I wholeheartedly recommend this bread if you are avoiding gluten!
INGREDIENTS
GLUTEN FREE WHOLE GRAIN BREAD: Water, Tapioca Starch, Potato Starch, Brown Rice Flour, Cane Sugar, Rice Flour with Cultured Rice Flour (for freshness), Modified Tapioca Starch, Whole Grain Sorghum Flour, Whole Grain Amaranth Flour, Expeller Pressed Canola Oil, Whole Grain Teff, Xanthan Gum, Yeast, Egg Whites, Tapioca Maltodextrin, Baking Powder (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Potato Flour, Monocalcium Phosphate), Flaxseed Meal, Sea Salt, Molasses, Calcium Sulfate, Enzymes. CONTAINS EGGS.
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It would be awesome in your blog if you so included a picture of nutritional values so we can decide if truly healthier or not.
Sometimes I forget to do the nutritional part. I added an image of the information, but I usually like to do it in text. Thanks for letting me know!
too bad it has eggs in it
Having a hard time finding GF bread, save for BFree, that does not have eggs
I am wheat, eggs and dairy intolerant (thank goodness no celiac problem)
too bad Trader Joe’s GF breads all have eggs
I am wheat (not a Celiac) eggs and dairy
intolerant
NONE of the GF breads save for BFree, are free of eggs
Try Bread Srsly. Order them online. Warning – they are expensive.
BRING THIS BREAD BACK!!!!!!
I have eaten this bread for many years and loved it. Then it was suddenly off the shelf for weeks. I did finally get some today and it is Awful. It is NOT the same bread it was for many years! The taste is bland. the texture is weird and gluey – sticky… and it is gummy when toasted… not nicely crisp as before. WHAT HAPPENED!?!?!?! 10.2022
Trader Joe’s does this crap all the time. I will have to go pick some of this bread up again and maybe review it again. I agree that they change recipes or bakers and put it in the same packaging and don’t tell us.
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You might want to do an updated review. They recently changed the recipe and, it my opinion, absolutely RUINED the product. It’s now a larger slice, but it’s thinner and the dough is now dry and chalky. It’s mostly a crappy batter with a few seeds thrown in. Big disappointment!
OK, will do!
I can only agree with the above comments. I have been eating this bread for a year or two. It was delicious, now bland and sticky, no taste. What happened, did they change the recipe or just tried to produce it cheaper.
Sadly they have made it Vegan by taking the eggs out and ruined the texture of the bread and it doesn’t toast. Bad idea Trader Joe’s
Great news! The old recipe is coming back! They had so many complaints and they heard us. Eggs are back in this bread by the end of the month. Next week? The power of complaining finally worked!
I had a look at the current loaf that they are selling and it looked miserable. I hadn’t picked it up since the recipe change. Thank goodness they are bringing the old one back!