Bread and bakery products - Statistics & Facts

At present day, bread is a food staple in many cultures all over the world. Bread is typically made from wheat flour dough and yeast, left to rise and then baked in an oven. It can also be made from the flour of other wheat species such as spelt, emmer, einkorn and kamut and non-wheat cereals including rye, barley, maize (corn), oats, sorghum, millet and rice. Breads come in various shapes and sizes: bagels, rolls, buns, flatbreads and the like. While bread is the most common baked item, other types of bake goods include biscuits, brownies, cakes, cookies, crackers and pastries.

In 2020, fresh bread and rolls were the leading bakery products in the United States, generating around 13.95 billion U.S. dollars in sales. Cookies came in second place, with around 9.28 billion U.S. dollars worth of sales in 2020.. Grupo Bimbo was the leading vendor of fresh bread in the country in 2019. That year, 325 million Americans consumed bread nationwide.

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