Hostess White Bread

Breakdown

4 ingredients to avoid

Hostess White Bread scores 27/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

Hostess White Bread lists 18 ingredients, starting with Enriched Flour, Water, Yeast, Sugar and Wheat Gluten. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 27/100 Hostess White Bread scores worse than most bread we have scored. A higher-scoring option in bread is jovial 100% Organic Einkorn All-Purpose Flour at 100/100.