Grissini, a convenient snack when you are away from home or instead of bread to accompany your favorite dishes. If you don't have time to prepare your own breadsticks and go to grocery stores or supermarkets to buy, you are faced with a wide variety of products. But how to choose quality breadsticks?
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Breadsticks, a convenient snack when you are away from home or instead of bread to accompany your favorite dishes.
If you don't have time to prepare your own breadsticks and go to grocery stores or supermarkets to buy, you are faced with a wide variety of products. But how to choose quality breadsticks?
Also in this case, to better understand what type of product we are talking about we need read the label carefully also taking a look at the nutritional values.
The ingredients listed should be few and simple, the quality flours (better if not very refined or wholemeal) as well as the fat used (the top is obviously the extra virgin olive oil in an exclusive form), also pay attention to the presence more or less consisting of salt.
As always, we recommend that you prepare your savory snacks at home whenever possible. Here you will find a recipe to make breadsticks twisted with surplus of sourdough, while at this link you will find the recipe for breadsticks without yeast.
However, if you happen to buy ready-made breadsticks, how to choose a quality product?
To help you make a more informed shopping we have compared the most common and used breadsticks, those that you probably also have at home or have ever bought.
COMPARING LABELS
Grissini Turin - San Carlo
ingredients: Soft wheat flour type "0", Vegetable oil (palm) (4%), Malted barley flour, Salt, Dextrose (5%), Yeast
Fagolosi classic taste - GrissinBon
ingredients: Breadsticks type "0" with 1,4% extra virgin olive oil; type "0" soft wheat flour, yeast cream, palm oil, lard, Presal® iodized salt (salt, potassium iodate 0,007%) 3%, extra virgin olive oil, barley malt extract, flour of malted wheat
Pangrì - White mill
ingredients: Type "0" soft wheat flour, sunflower oil (11%), yeast, salt, barley and corn malt extract. It may contain traces of: nuts, milk, sesame, soy and eggs.
Parades with olives - Pavesi
ingredients: Type "0" soft wheat flour, black and green olives 11,8% (black olives, green olives, salt), sunflower oil 11,2%, crunchy cereals (rice, barley, sugar, oats, rye, wheat, barley malt, salt), yeast, salt, barley and corn malt extract, emulsifier: mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, flavor, parsley. It may contain traces of: soy, milk, nuts, eggs, sesame.
Breadsticks with olive oil - Panealba
ingredients: type 0 soft wheat flour, olive oil 8%, brewer's yeast, salt, malted wheat flour
Classic Bongrì - The Good Earth
ingredients: type "0" soft wheat flour, 8% extra virgin olive oil, yeast, sea salt, malted wheat flour
Gluten-free breadsticks - Schär
ingredients: potato starch, rice flour, modified corn starch, yeast, buckwheat flour, palm oil, glucose-fructose syrup, sugar, salt, thickeners: Hydroxypropylmethylcellulose emulsifier: mono- and diacetyltartaric esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids raising agents: ammonium acid carbonate natural flavoring
Mini gluten-free breadsticks - The Venetian
ingredients: Salt, Raising agents: ammonium carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate, diphosphate, Emulsifier: soy lecithin, Natural flavor, May contain traces of nuts, peanuts and sesame, Corn starch, Potato starch, Corn flour ( 13%), Rice flour, Extra virgin olive oil (5.9%), Vegetable palm oil, Psyllium seed fiber, Linseed, Glucose syrup
Breadsticks - Enerzona
ingredients: Type 0 soft wheat flour - Soya proteins (16%) - Hydrolyzed wheat proteins (12%) - Hulled sesame seeds (12%) - Extra virgin olive oil (8%) - Yeast - Antioxidant: ascorbic acid - Salt - Malted soft wheat flour - Flavors. It may contain traces of cereals containing gluten, eggs, soy, milk, sesame, nuts.
Spelled breadsticks with turmeric - Fior di Loto
ingredients: Organic spelled flour 83%, organic extra virgin olive oil 10%, organic turmeric 2%, salt, yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae).
Spelled breadsticks - Probios
ingredients: Spelled flour * (contains gluten) * 81%, extra virgin olive oil * 8%, corn syrup *, salt, yeast (saccharomyces cerevisiae). (* from organic farming) - May contain traces of sesame seeds and milk.
Wholemeal thin breadsticks - Flying trunk
ingredients: Wholemeal soft wheat flour *, extra virgin olive oil * 3%, brewer's yeast, salt. (* from organic farming) - May contain traces of sesame seeds.
COMPARATIVE TABLE
Now let's compare specifically in breadsticks: the flour and type of oil or fat used, Calories and amount of salt. This comparison table will make it easier for you.
To view the enlarged table and download the PDF click here
THE OPINION OF THE NUTRITIONIST
We asked Iolanda Frangella, a nutritionist biologist, to give us some advice on choosing higher quality breadsticks. Here is what she told us:
“Breadsticks are among the most widely used substitutes for bread. Calling them substitutes is actually not correct as qualitatively they are absolutely not the same. As reported in the article, there are breadsticks of fair quality, containing less industrial oils and fats, made with alternative flours and added with various seeds. However, a common denominator remains: 100g of breadsticks have the same calories as a plate of pasta with tomato sauce with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese. What does this mean? Not that they should have snacks or breaks during the day with a nice plate of pasta but rather that the snack with breadsticks is loaded in quantity but poor in quality. They appear light and one leads to another but eating them especially at the restaurant while waiting for the courses, is not exactly the best habit. I always recommend, if you have the possibility, to directly consume some bread (it is less caloric than the substitutes), or take a break with dried fruit, a fruit, a piece of Parmesan cheese".
