Subway recently came out and stated that their bread “is, of course, bread.” However, what required them to make this seemingly pointless statement in the first place? Well, it’s all because The Supreme Court of Ireland recently ruled that, for tax law purposes, Subway‘s sandwich bread cannot be legally deemed as “bread”.
Specifically, the famous franchise’s bread contains such a high sugar percentage that it’s instead a “confectionary or fancy baked good.” To be more specific, reports outlined that the dough used in Subway’s white bread, Italian, nine-grain wheat, honey oat, Italian herbs and cheese, nine-grain multiseed, and hearty Italian contain about 10% of sugar content each.
This number is 5x higher than the allowed amount stated in Ireland’s Value-Added Tax Act of 1972 – which notes that a bread product dough’s total flour weight can only contain a maximum of 2% sugar.
Despite the ruling Subway said: “We have been baking fresh bread in our stores for more than three decades and our guests return each day for sandwiches made on bread that smells as good as it tastes.”
