How is it possible to make bread that has 0g fiber per slice?

Question

Often bread in store says it has 0g fiber per serving (1 slice). How is that possible? Doesn’t the basic ingredients of bread have fiber?

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

White flour basically has 0 fibers. Ok, they have about 2g per 100 g, but a slice of bread might be made of ~50gr of flour, which mean it has around 1 g of fiber per slice.

If they add cornstarch it will have even less fiber per slice, since cornstarch has 1g fiber/100g. So as it has <1g per slice, manufacturer just say that it has 0g fiber to simplify (see also Tic Tacs having 0 calories despite being literally sugar).