Is bread a living thing

Answer 1

yes it is

flour is grouded up flour

Answer 2

Bread is not alive. It is made from flour which is made from grains which, before they are made into flour, did contain living plant embryos. But the flour contains no embryos. If you plant it in the ground, no new plants will grow.

Another answer:

One could argue that bread dough is a living thing, because it contains yeast which is living micro-organisms. It is not one living thing, but it contains a multitude of living things called yeasts. As yeast consumes and digests sugars in the bread dough, it produces gas which causes the dough to rise. That is why, after kneading, dough is set aside to rise; the yeast needs that time to eat, grow, reproduce and produce gas.

When the bread dough is baked, the yeast dies. So the final product, a loaf of bread, is no longer "alive".

Answer 3

Depends on the kind of flour. I'm going to answer for the most common: wheat flour. There are essentially four components in wheat flour, from greatest to least: starch, protein, fat, and minerals. There is water, but I'm going to ignore that.

I know of two common kinds of wheat: red and white. Red wheat has between 8-12% protein; whereas, white has 3-5%. The protein is gluten (there are other proteins, however). Red wheat is great for yeast breads; white wheat is best in confections (cakes, soda breads, cookies, etc.). When you knead wheat flour dough, the protein connects together forming long chains, giving it elasticity.

Answer 4

It is made from wheat (usually), which was a living plant, but flour is no longer living.

Answer 5

No