Comparing Ingredients for brown bread

mrtom

Looking at this Ingredients for brown bread, one "Soda Bread" the other Wholemeal brown bread. Can anyone explain the difference in the number of listed items ?

Its not just about shelf life!!

phormium

Soda bread is a very basic product, if you made it yourself it would be just flour, buttermilk and bread soda, you could throw in a few oats too or seeds too.

Sliced pan on the other hand is made with yeast as the raising agent, to make it rise quicker so that they can produce it faster than if you had to let it rise naturally they add stuff, usually vit c at least and possibly other things like the ones listed. The oil keeps it fresh longer and there is probably a preservative of some sort in that list too. If I was making that at home it would be just flour, water, salt, yeast but hard to get the really light consistency of a sliced pan, it's normally a bit denser and doesn't stay fresh as long as the enhanced bought kind!

That's the non scientific answer, I'm just an enthusiastic home baker!