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ABOUT OUR BREAD

 


The Great Harvest FRESH "Made from Scratch" Difference

 

¨Each morning we fresh-grind our own premium whole wheat. 
What's so great about that?  Click here.

¨We start from scratch, every morning, using
old-fashioned, natural ingredients like yeast, salt, and honey.   (Our cookies are like Grandma's: made with rolled oats, eggs, butter & brown sugar.)


¨We don't use additives, preservatives, chemicals, dough conditioners, or other ingredients you can't pronounce.   And, unlike a lot of bakery products out there, we NEVER “add water” to a mix or “bake off” frozen product that came in on a truck, etc.  (yuck!)

 

¨With a few special 5 9 exceptions, we don’t add oils, dairy or fat to our breads.

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We keep our breads simple because we care (and we know you care) about taste and nutrition.   Our signature bread, Honey Whole Wheat, has only 5 ingredients:  fresh-ground flour, water, yeast, honey, and salt. 

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Customers love that our bread stays fresh for 7-10 days!   You can find Bread Care Instructions on our "Bread & Sweets Menu" page.  
 

 

¨ We use the best wheat in the world!
Nothing influences our bread quality more than wheat.  High quality wheat is so important to us that we have our very own Wheat Specialist (yep, it’s a “she”!) whose job is to research and select wheat for our breads.  Farmers send Bonnie a lot of wheat samples - about 50 bags a year.  She tests each bag by baking loaves from each, turning down the bags which aren't up to her standards (usually 30-40%).  Bonnie has YEARS of experience with wheat and baking Great Harvest bread, has a good eye, and good taste buds too, checking carefully at the way the wheat bakes - does it bake evenly?  is it moist? does it have a slightly sweet, nutty taste?  She's looking for wheat that bakes well, has extraordinary taste, has the most protein, and high fiber. 

All that,  just to ensure that Great Harvest
breads are the most delicious & nutritious that they can be!
 

(Thanks, Bonnie!!)
Can ya tell we love her?

   
 

¨ We support  family-owned farms.   For more than 3 decades we have been a friend to family farms in Montana.  Bonnie and Jason know our wheat farmers on a first-name basis. 

 

Our farmers understand and produce our proprietary
whole grains that have the baking qualities and
hearty taste that's uniquely Great Harvest.


Click here to meet Tex Crawford, who might have grown the wheat in your loaf!