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

It’s not every day that you have your mind blown by something as inconspicuous as bread tags. Those colorful plastic clips that keep our loaves of bread closed in between grabbing slices are more than ...

It’s been widely circulated that the colored tags (or ties) used to seal packaged loaves of bread indicate the day the bread was baked. But because many brands appear to use random colors or a single ...