Bread Facts
To whet your appetite ahead of National Bread Week, here are some fun and fascinating facts:
YOU'VE GOT TO ROLL WITH IT
On an average day, British consumers buy just under 1 million packs of rolls, which is equivalent to 220 million individual rolls bought every day and around 8.8million kilogram's of rolls per day.
This is also equivalent to the weight of around:
£130bn of gold bullion, 715 Rolls Royce Silver Phantoms, 7,300 Mini Coopers and 1,800 adult African Bull Elephants!
The retail value of annual rolls sales is equivalent in value to 17 tonnes of gold bullion.
End to end, daily sales of rolls would cover: the distance of 16 Channel Tunnels or the height of 6600 Wembley Arches.
SANDWICH SURPRISES
British consumers ate £2.9bn worth of sandwiches in the latest year, which is up 6% on the previous year.
The world's largest sandwich weighed 5,440 lb (2,467.5 kg) and was made by Wild Woody‚ at Chill and Grill, Roseville, Michigan, USA on March 17 2005.
Cheese and ham account for nearly half of all sandwich fillings.
LUNCHBOX ESSENTIALS
74% of British lunchboxes feature a sandwich.
Lunchboxes are worth £4.2 billion each year (including a drink), and adult men account for 42% of all foods in the lunchbox.
In the last 12 months, the largest growing bakery products in British lunchboxes have been brown bread and rolls.