Sliced bread

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Sliced bread

A loaf of brown bread sliced to uniform thickness by a bread slicing machine
Type	Bread
Main ingredients	bread
Variations	slice, roll
Food energy (per serving)	250per slice kcal
Media: Sliced bread

Sliced bread is a loaf of bread that has been sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".^[1][2] By 1933, around 80% of bread sold in the US was pre-sliced, leading to the popular idiom "greatest thing since sliced bread".^[3]