Social media treats bread tags like a cheat code for freshness. The industry uses them for something far more practical.

Before a loaf runs out, a plastic bread tag is essential for keeping the bag sealed and preventing your bread from becoming stale. However, once the loaf is finished, that plastic bread tag is most ...

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Writer Lena Abraham's bread tags. If you buy a lot of bread, chances are your kitchen junk drawer looks a little like mine: littered with colorful plastic tags once used to contain loaves of yore.

If you have more than a couple of items in your setup, it's pretty likely that you're going to start to have some problems with tangled cables and messy living spaces. Cable clutter can be easily ...

WEST LAFAYETTE – Most people probably don’t think twice about throwing away bread tags, the small, roundish square plastic pieces that keep loaves of bread from going stale. But to Purdue sophomore ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CARMEL, Ind. – A Carmel High School student ...