{"id":2091,"date":"2012-06-27T13:41:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T12:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:42:00","slug":"roberts-bakery-gluten-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/roberts-bakery-gluten-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Northern Baker Enters Gluten Free Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/roberts-yes-you-can.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"roberts-yes-you-can\" width=\"500\" height=\"246\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/roberts-yes-you-can.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/roberts-yes-you-can-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearall\"><\/div>\n<p>Just in from a quick dash to Tesco again (I seem to have been to one supermarket or another every day this week) where I found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Genius pains au chocolat (more on these when we&#8217;ve tasted them)<\/li>\n<li>Roberts &#8216;Yes! You Can&#8217; brown bread<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that yet another mainstream baker has joined the gluten free providers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertsbakery.co.uk\/\">Roberts Bakery<\/a> is a northern brand (Cheshire, Staffordshire, the Midlands and North Wales) and is probably Frank Roberts &amp; Sons primary bread brand. One of their newer acquisitions (2010) was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frank-roberts.co.uk\/our-bakeries\">P&amp;A Davies<\/a>, from Chester, now known as Davies Bakery, and which specialises in gluten free products.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, the new gluten free bread is branded as Roberts Bakery bread, not Davies Bakery.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t managed to find much online about this new bread&mdash;not much more than a trademark submission from the Intellectual Property Office in early 2012. The Products\/Gluten Free page of the Roberts website is blank, and I haven&#8217;t found any press releases. I wonder if the bread on the shelf in my local Tesco is part of a trial?<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s interesting that this is the second major northern baker to offer gluten free bread? I wonder what Allied Bakeries and Premier Foods are working on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in from a quick dash to Tesco again (I seem to have been to one supermarket or another every day this week) where I found: Genius pains au chocolat (more on these when we&#8217;ve tasted them) Roberts &#8216;Yes! You Can&#8217; brown bread It&#8217;s interesting that yet another mainstream baker has joined the gluten free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[167,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-market","8":"category-living-gluten-free","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}