What We Bake

Yes, all breads are baked fresh each day, onsite at each of our bakeries.

Please ask the staff at your local bakery or view here on our website. Alternatively, contact COBS Bread direct.

Food additives are used to preserve food and/or improve its taste, appearance, quality and stability. Additives play an important part in food supply ensuring that food is safe and meets customer needs.

Preservatives are one type of food additive that are used to prolong the shelf life of food by preventing deterioration.

The COBS Bread Traditional and Continental range are preservative free – they do not contain any preservatives.

For details on each COBS Bread product, please check the nutritional panel of each product found here on the website.

Some foods can cause severe allergic reactions in some people - this is known as anaphylaxis. Foods such as peanuts, tree nuts (e.g. cashews, almonds, walnuts),  shellfish, finned fish, milk, eggs,  sesame and soybeans and their products may cause severe allergic reactions and must be declared on labels or available to customers. Gluten is also included in this list as a caution for those with coeliac disease.

In addition, foods containing sulphites must be labelled as containing sulphites if they have 10 milligrams per kilogram or more of added sulphites. This is the level that may trigger asthma attacks in some asthmatics. 

The following allergenic ingredients are used in our bakeries:

• Cereals containing gluten
• Sesame seeds
• Tree-nuts 
• Soybean
• Milk/dairy

Eggs are not routinely used in our bakeries except by a small number who bake kosher products; however some ingredients do contain eggs such as the mayonnaise and some pastries.

For specific product information please refer to the product ingredient lists on this website.

COBS Bread uses wheat based flour, therefore all products contain gluten.

Unfortunately COBS Bread is unable to make gluten or wheat free bread because of the chance of cross contamination between products.

Yeast is an important part of bread making. It ferments sugars and produces a gas which enables the bread to rise.

Bakers yeast is an ingredient in all products made at COBS Bread the only exceptions being scones.

Many breads contain ham, bacon, eggs, cheese, milk and butter including the savoury Pullaparts, rolls, scones, croissants and danishes. Some products do not contain any animal products including COBS Bread Traditional range and the majority of fruit breads.

COBS Bread suppliers indicate that all emulsifiers used in products are vegetable based excluding the rennet in cheese, which may be derived from animals or vegetables.