Brioche: uses, history, nutrition, health benefits!

Brioche is a French origin bread with a high egg and butter content in it. It has richer texture and is tender to eat. Moreover, it has a lot of nutrients and hence health benefits. How much calories does one bun provide? What are the health values of this bun bread?

Brioche

Brioche has its origin in France. The first written record of this bread is in French in 1404. Later this term got included in Cotgrave’s A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues in the year 1611. In its description, it says that it is a “rowle or bunne of spiced bread”.

Brioche is put in the category of Viennoiserie. This means that it is something between a bread and a pastry. This is because besides the ingredients of bread of wheat flour, salt, yeast, and oil, it has added ingredients such as butter, milk, eggs, cream, and sugar. Hence it has a rich sweet taste. It has a brown or golden crust that bakers accentuate with egg wash after proofing.

The ratio of flour to butter varies and this determines its cost. The richer varieties that are expensive have a ratio of 3:2 while the cheaper ones have it at 4:1.

Nutritional facts

Due to the eggs and protein in brioche, it relatively has more calories and fats. There is 110 calories in 38 grams of this bread serving. Fats is 1.4 gram, protein 4 grams and carbs 20 grams. Sugars are 3 grams, and fiber is 1 gram. It has 200 mg of sodium with thiamine 0.4 mg, folic acid 35 micrograms and iron nearly 1 mg.

Commercial brioche bakers use vegetable oils instead of butter. This might be healthy because vegetable oils have monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. But they may contain trans fats as well depending on the type of vegetable oil used.

Health benefits

This bread has a lot of carbs. These provide instant energy to the eater. It is delicious and can serve as a good and healthy breakfast item. When enriched and fortified flour is used to make this bread, it would provide the person with B complex vitamins, iron, magnesium, vitamin D etc.

This bun can form a good preworkout food. It has less fiber and is therefore easy to digest and absorb and assimilate. Therefore, it is a good recovery food. The iron and folate in it gives red blood cells production a boost.

The bread has fair amount of fats. Therefore, people desirous to lose weight can consume it to remain fit and slim.

People with allergy to wheat, eggs or milk, should avoid consumption of this bread. Also gluten intolerant people should not take this wheat product with gluten in it.

Read more: How to make Oat Flour at Home? (Healthy, Gluten-free)

For storage keep at room temperature in an airtight container. It stays for a week or two. In the refrigerator, molding is less but staling is more. One can keep it in the freezer for 5 months with no rotting or molding.