A half loaf of wholemeal tiger bread is a good fit for a family dinner if fibre per 100 g is a priority. Choose a half loaf of white tiger bread if that’s the type you’d rather serve. Also consider how much bread you need, whether your chosen variety is available at your shop and whether it needs to be baked before serving.
If you don’t eat much bread with dinner, a half loaf is a smaller amount to start with. If you have slices left over, the Netherlands Nutrition Centre recommends freezing bread in portions as soon as you buy it.
If you’re looking for a half loaf of tiger bread and fibre matters to you, compare the nutritional information per 100 g for white and wholemeal varieties. The half loaves of wholemeal tiger bread checked at Albert Heijn, Jumbo and PLUS each list their own fibre content.
If you have time and access to an oven, PLUS’s half loaf of white part-baked bread could fit your planned serving time. The product instructions say to bake it for a further 6–8 minutes after preheating.
First, work out how much bread you’ll get through with your meal. Then compare fibre per 100 g and check whether your chosen variety is available and how it needs to be prepared.
| What to consider | What should you check? | Who is this most important for? |
|---|---|---|
| Portion size | Check that it’s a half loaf and follow the storage instructions. The Netherlands Nutrition Centre recommends freezing bread in portions as soon as you buy it. | If we’re likely to have bread left over after dinner, I don’t want to start with a whole loaf. The right portion size would be the main consideration for around 36% of consumers. |
| Fibre | Read the product name and compare fibre per 100 g in the nutritional information, rather than judging by the crust colour alone. | If I want to serve wholemeal bread, I want to be able to compare the fibre content of the variety I choose. This would be the main consideration for around 29% of consumers. |
| Availability | Check whether your chosen shop stocks the half-loaf variety. Albert Heijn marks its half loaves of tiger bread as available in store only; ALDI lists its farmhouse tiger breads as whole loaves. | I want to know before I do my shopping whether I can actually pick up half a loaf of tiger bread. Availability would be the main consideration for around 21% of consumers. |
| Preparation | Check whether the bread is ready to serve or needs to go in the oven. According to the product instructions, PLUS’s half loaf of white part-baked bread needs 6–8 minutes in the oven. | If the oven is already in use around dinnertime, I need to be able to fit the bread preparation into my plans. Serving time would be the main consideration for around 14% of consumers. |
ALDI lists the farmhouse tiger breads mentioned as whole loaves. Seeing tiger bread in Lidl or Dirk’s range doesn’t tell you which loaf sizes your local shop stocks either.
Check the product name and pack size at the shop where you do your shopping. If you’re still considering a whole loaf, decide in advance what you’ll do with any leftover slices.
The tiger pattern doesn’t tell you how much fibre the bread contains. The half loaves of wholemeal tiger bread from Jumbo, Albert Heijn and PLUS list 7.3 g, 6.7 g and 6.4 g of fibre per 100 g respectively.
Look for ‘wholemeal’ in the product name and check the nutritional information per 100 g for the variety you choose.
Compare the exact bread variety at each shop: a listing for tiger bread doesn’t automatically mean that a half loaf is available too.
Albert Heijn lists half loaves of white and wholemeal tiger bread. The product pages say these are available in store only.
Jumbo lists half loaves of farmhouse tiger bread in white and wholemeal varieties.
PLUS lists half loaves of Korenlanders farmhouse tiger bread in white and wholemeal varieties. The white half loaf mentioned is part-baked.
ALDI lists farmhouse tiger breads in white, brown and wholemeal varieties as whole loaves.
Lidl includes tiger bread in its bread range.
Dirk includes brown tiger bread in its bread range.
If you won’t use the bread in the short term, it’s best to freeze it in portions as soon as you buy it, as recommended by the Netherlands Nutrition Centre. Then take only as much out of the freezer as you need.
No, white and wholemeal are different types of bread. Compare the exact product names and nutritional information: Jumbo’s half loaf of white bread lists 2.3 g of fibre per 100 g, compared with 7.3 g per 100 g for its half loaf of wholemeal bread.
It depends on the variety you choose. PLUS’s half loaf of white Korenlanders farmhouse tiger bread is part-baked and, according to the product instructions, needs 6–8 minutes in the oven after preheating. Check the packaging for other loaves.
For packaged tiger bread, check the ingredients list; for unpackaged bread, ask the baker. The Netherlands Nutrition Centre says that not all bakers use baker’s salt, so the tiger crust won’t tell you either way.
