Is Dave's Killer Bread Healthy? Good Seed Nutrition Facts and Ingredients

Dave's Killer Bread Good Seed nutrition facts: is it healthy?

Here is one 45 g slice, from the manufacturer's label as listed in USDA FoodData Central:

The good part is what the slice gives you. 5 g of protein is 10% of the 50 g Daily Value and 3 g of fiber is 11% of the 28 g Daily Value, so two slices for a sandwich bring 10 g of protein. Saturated fat is 0 g, and 160 mg of sodium is 7% of the 2,300 mg Daily Value. On our calculation the bread gets Nutri-Score B, which gives it 71 out of 100 for nutrition, the strongest part of its score.

The weaker part is the sugar. The label lists 5 g of added sugars per slice, which is 10% of the 50 g Daily Value for added sugars. That is 11.1 g of sugar per 100 g, all of it added, from organic cane sugar and molasses. A two-slice sandwich has 10 g of added sugar before you put anything on it.

Like most bread, it is easy to eat a lot of. 67% of its calories come from starch and sugar, and it has 356 mg of sodium per 100 g. That meets the carbohydrate and salt marker researchers use to define hyper-palatable food: more than 40% of calories from carbohydrates and at least 0.2% sodium by weight (Fazzino et al., 2019). The overeating part of the Truvi score is 46 out of 100.

Dave's Killer Bread Good Seed ingredients

There are 18 ingredients on the current label, in this order:

• Water. the first ingredient, as in most bread.
• Organic wheat flour. refined flour, listed before the whole wheat. This means the loaf is not 100% whole grain.
• Organic whole wheat flour and cracked whole wheat. the whole grain part.
• Organic cane sugar. the fifth ingredient, before the seeds.
• Organic seed mix. flax, sunflower and brown and black sesame seeds, the seeds the bread is named for.
• Organic wheat gluten. added wheat protein that makes the loaf rise higher and softer.
• Organic molasses, steel cut oats, milled flax seeds and oat fiber. 2% or less each.
• Yeast, sea salt and organic canola oil..
• Organic cultured wheat flour, organic vinegar, enzymes and organic acerola powder. small amounts used in commercial baking.

The label lists wheat. Check the bag for any extra allergen notes before you buy.

Is Dave's Killer Bread ultra-processed?

Good Seed is, even though it is organic. NOVA, the food-processing scale used in nutrition research, sorts foods by how they are made, not by whether they are organic. The NOVA authors write that industrial breads made only from wheat flour, water, salt and yeast are processed foods, group 3 (Monteiro et al., 2019). Sugar on its own does not change that.

Group 4, ultra-processed, is for foods that also contain substances used only in industrial food. The NOVA authors name gluten in that list, next to soy protein isolate and whey protein. Good Seed lists organic wheat gluten as its seventh ingredient, so it is NOVA 4, and the processing part of the Truvi score is 30 out of 100 for that reason.

Most Dave's Killer Bread loaves list wheat gluten too, and so does Ezekiel 4:9. If you want a bread that is not ultra-processed, look for a short list without gluten, like the breads below.

Why it scores 55 out of 100

The Truvi score (our method) is an opinion from the label. It combines three parts: processing (30 out of 100, NOVA 4 because of the added gluten), nutrition (71, Nutri-Score B) and how easy the food is to overeat (46, carbohydrate and salt). The protein and fiber keep the nutrition part high. The added gluten and the added sugar hold the score at 55.

Breads that score higher

These score higher on the same scale. None of them lists added gluten. The closest to a seeded sandwich bread are the Great Grains multigrain loaf and the Manna sprouted wheat bread; the corn tortillas and tostadas are a different kind of bread.

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  Vista Hermosa Corn Tortillas

  Organic corn, water and lime, nothing else. Per 2 tortillas (48 g): 110 calories, 3 g protein and 3 g fiber.

  NOVA 1 · Photo: kiliweb, CC BY-SA 3.0

  91Excellent

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  Great Grains Bakery Multigrain with Flax Seeds Bread

  Water, whole wheat flour, enriched wheat flour and a 9-grain mix with flax seed. Per 45 g slice: 120 calories, 5 g protein, 5 g fiber and 190 mg sodium.

  NOVA 1 · Photo: macrofactor, CC BY-SA 3.0

  81Excellent

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  Charras Corn Tostada Baked Traditional

  Baked corn tostadas of white corn flour, salt and calcium hydroxide. Per 12 g tostada: 44 calories and 60 mg sodium.

  NOVA 1 · Photo: foodless, CC BY-SA 3.0

  78Excellent

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  Manna Bread

  Sprouted whole wheat, water, dates and cinnamon, with no yeast, salt or added gluten. Per 56 g serving: 150 calories, 8 g protein, 5 g fiber and 6 g sugar, all from the dates.

  NOVA 1 · Reported at Whole Foods · Photo: bredowmax, CC BY-SA 3.0

  77Excellent

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  TRADER JOE'S Three Seed Sourdough Bread

  A sourdough of unbleached wheat flour, water, sunflower, sesame and poppy seeds and sea salt. Made with white flour, so it has less fiber than Good Seed: 5.74 g per 100 g, against 6.7 g.

  NOVA 1 · Photo: municorn-calorie-counter-app, CC BY-SA 3.0

  77Excellent

Full ingredient list and nutrition

Water, organic wheat flour, organic whole wheat flour, organic cracked whole wheat, organic cane sugar, organic seed mix (organic flax seeds, organic sunflower seeds, organic brown sesame seeds, organic black sesame seeds), organic wheat gluten, contains 2% or less of each of the following: organic molasses, organic steel cut oats, organic milled flax seeds, organic oat fiber, yeast, sea salt, organic expeller pressed canola oil, organic cultured wheat flour, organic vinegar, enzymes, organic acerola powder

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