Best place to keep bread ‘fresher for longer’ without going stale, mouldy or freezing it (Image: Getty) Bread is an essential item in most households, with 99.8 percent of consumers including it in their shopping, leading to nearly 11 million loaves being sold daily in the UK. Nonetheless, the fluctuating summer temperatures make it difficult to decide the optimal storage location for a loaf of bread .

Express.co.uk had a conversation with Sarah Taylor, a food safety expert at High Speed Training, to discuss the ideal storage for bread and methods to prevent it from going stale or mouldy .

Sarah explained: “It’s the age-old question, should you bin or keep bread with spots of mould? Mouldy bread is generally best thrown away, as the mould will likely have spread much further through the loaf than is actually visible. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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