The history of bread is as old as the history of civilizations. Bread is one of the oldest and most important food items known to mankind.

It is also known that in the Neolithic Age, some herbal products such as chestnuts and acorns were crushed and mixed with water, and the dough obtained was cooked on hot stones or in ash and eaten. According to the information obtained from the research, BC. Around 4000 BC, the Babylonians knew how to bake bread in special ovens. Again BC. It is understood from the findings obtained from the excavations that the art of milling and baking was practiced in 4300 BC.

B.C. Around 2600 BC, the Ancient Egyptians realized that bread became softer and fluffier when they added yeast to the dough made from a mixture of wheat flour and water. The Egyptian people, consisting of various classes, had known about bread for a long time. However, after the accidental discovery of yeast, white bread became the symbol of the nobility and the palace. These leavened breads, which were popular with the rich and the nobles, gained so much value that they even began to be used as money in Ancient Egypt. Spreading from Egypt to Rome and then to Western Europe, leavened bread has taken its place on tables almost all over the world in recent centuries.

Bread later spread to Central and other European countries from the south. Before wheat, Europeans used other grain products such as rye, but they began making white bread from wheat in the 15th century. After microorganisms and yeast were actively known (19th century), bread production became an industrial branch. Türkiye is one of the societies that consume the most bread in the world.

Bread produced from wheat flour and fermented dough is widely consumed in our country. However, although limited, bread is also produced from corn, oats, rye and similar grains depending on the region.