Panera Bread buys a lot of bacon each year, over 2 million pounds or the equivalent of 115 million slices, to be exact. Going forward, the star of the classic bacon, egg and cheese sandwich will now be “clean” at all Panera Bread locations. Clean is simply the buzzword that denotes food free of artificial ingredients, a term that has become popular among food companies trying to appeal to more health conscious eaters. Over a year in development, Panera’s new bacon uses celery powder as a curing agent in place of additives typically found in fast food bacon such as sodium nitrite, sodium phospahte and sodium erythorbate. The bacon used by McDonald’s and Restaurant Brands’
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