This might be of interest: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/food/200...of_living.html
Ever felt bloated after eating a sandwich? Know anyone who has stopped eating wheat? Wonder why you can tolerate bread from a French country bakery but not the 'French' baguettes sold in UK supermarkets?
As I wrote in yesterday's G2, something's happened to British bread: increasing numbers of people avoid it altogether and per capita consumption is in long-term decline. Curiously, the baking industry denies any problem, preferring to scrap over market share rather than examine why its product gives some people a pain in the gut despite being dressed up in a hundred fortified 'healthy eating' and 'better for you' guises.
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