Bread is one of the most nutritious and best value foods you can buy. It's so convenient and versatile, with hundreds of taste-bud teasing varieties to eat, on the move or at home.

All bread is good for you whether it's white, brown or wholemeal.

Bread is not fattening (although what you put on it can be).

Bread is rich in complex carbohydrates which should form the base of a healthy, balanced diet and which are an important source of energy.

Over a third of our thiamin (vitamin B1) comes from cereal foods including bread - and bread is also a good source of niacin, another B vitamin.

Bread is an excellent source of iron. About 50% of the iron in our diet comes from cereal foods such as bread.

All bread contains a significant amount of dietary fibre, although wholemeal bread contains three times as much as white bread.

Bread is one of the best value sources of calcium in our diet. 6 medium slices from a large white loaf provide over a third of the recommended intake of calcium for adults.