This is 99% invisible.

Eat one the bread. I'm Roman Mars.

When I think about white bread, I usually think of wonder bread, and I can picture the

loaves all lined up on the grocery store shelves in perfect uniform rows.

The red, yellow, and blue circles on the wonder bread label were supposed to conjure balloons

floating away, taking us somewhere, somewhere wondrous, somewhere better.

The first print advertisement for wonder bread, which actually came out before the bread itself,

stated only that a wonder was coming. That's Wonder Boy Sam Greenspan.

And in a lot of ways in its time, wonder bread really was a wonder. It was the perfect loaf.

But now, white bread, and not just wonder bread, but really any brand of industrially produced

white bread, it's thought of by food purists as part of a problem.

The problem being that we don't know where our food comes from, and we might be consuming

impure and unhealthy ingredients. The funny thing is, industrial white bread that evenly sliced,

squishy, moist, perfectly white, and wondrous loaf was once the highly designed solution

to that very same problem.

You want to grow bigger and stronger, don't you?

Golly, sure.

Okay, a sandwich daily in two slices of wonder bread every meal give you eight elements you need.

For much of human history, bread has been, and still is, one of the most important foods.

Our human ancestors 30,000 years ago had a crude form of bread, nearly every culture on earth

has some form of bread, and the importance of bread is, shall we say, baked into language.

Take, for instance, the word companion.

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