Supermarket Secrets: What Your Groceries Aren’t Telling You

“Fresh” Bread That’s Days Old

You know that heavenly smell of “freshly baked” bread wafting through the supermarket aisles? Well, here’s the twist—it’s often just par-baked loaves shipped in frozen and browned on-site. Supermarkets rely on the illusion of freshness by heating up pre-made dough to make it seem like it just came out of a quaint neighborhood oven.

That baguette you snagged might’ve been manufactured a week ago in a factory hundreds of miles away. The scent? Sometimes even artificially pumped into the air to lure hungry shoppers. It’s not that the bread is bad—it’s just cleverly disguised, and certainly not the honest, flour-covered artisan story you imagined.

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