THE COLOR OF THE TWIST TIE ON BREAD PACKAGING MEANS SOMETHING

The color signifies what day of the week the bread was baked on. The practice of using these color codes is not meant necessarily to be used by the customer, but actually is to aid the person stocking the shelves with bread in determining what bread is old and needs removed from the shelves. This way, they don’t actuallly have to look closely at the tabs (which usually also show a “sell by” date); they can simply just look for ones of a specific color and remove those. Each manufacturer maintains their own color code scheme, but this is usually easily discoverable on the web, by asking a bread stocker at the store, or by simply emailing the manufacturer of your favorite bread.