About | Thomas' Breads (2024)

FAQs

Who owns Thomas Breads? ›

Thomas' is a brand of English muffins and bagels in North America, established in 1880. It is owned by Bimbo Bakeries USA, one of the largest baking companies in the United States, which also owns Entenmann's, Sara Lee, Stroehmann, and Arnold bread companies.

An English muffin isn't healthy on its own as it does not provide a balanced meal by itself, but it can still be part of a healthy diet. English muffins can be rich in fiber and several important nutrients, such as selenium, manganese, and B vitamins.

After Bimbo bought Thomas' in January 2009, Mr.

Bimbo Bakeries is the largest bakery in the U.S., and the world, and is especially well-known among the Mexican and Latin American community.

Additionally, studies show that increased intake of refined grains — such as English muffins made with refined flour — may be associated with increased belly fat, higher triglyceride levels, and decreased insulin sensitivity, a risk factor for type 2 diabetes ( 14 , 15 ).

Store-bought muffins like Bays English Muffins or Thomas English Muffins, have a long shelf life due to preservatives, but they will still expire after a while. If you have stored your English Muffins in the refrigerator or freezer, they will last beyond their sell-by date as discussed above.

In the early 1970s, McDonald's introduced the highly successful Egg McMuffin - a delicious Canadian-style bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich on a toasted BAYS^® English Muffin. Today, BAYS^® English Muffins maintain their standard of excellence by using the original Bay family recipe.

The small white particles on the bottom of Thomas'^® English Muffins are farina. Farina is a cereal food, frequently described as mild-tasting, usually served warm, made from cereal grains. This is used to prevent the doughball from sticking to the oven plate and also to give the product its unique taste.

What are English muffins called in England? ›

They've been around in England since long before Thomas popularized them here. Go to any British supermarket, like Tesco or Sainsbury's, and you'll see them marketed as simply “muffins,” or sometimes “breakfast muffins” or “toasting muffins.”

The distinctive taste, texture and flavor of Thomas' English Muffins come from griddle baking. This process, unchanged since day one, uses quality ingredients to create our distinctively coarse-grained, yeast-raised dough. They are split, not sliced, to preserve their unique, toast-up-perfectly texture.

Grupo Bimbo was born in 1945 in Mexico City, Mexico selling cellophane-wrapped small and large white loaf bread, rye bread and toast. The same year, Osito Bimbo was introduced as the beloved logo. Did you know the name Bimbo is a combination of Bingo, a popular song in America at the time and the Disney movie, Bambi?

They're about the same size and have craters or holes. The differences are that crumpets are always made with milk (you won't find any milk in English muffin recipes) and are only griddled on one side, leaving one side toasted and the other soft—think sort of like a pancake's texture, only a little more spongy.

In the United States, it was first broadcast along with the spin-off series Shining Time Station on PBS' PTV Park block in 1989. The rights to the series are currently owned by HIT Entertainment (a subsidiary of Mattel), which acquired Gullane Entertainment in July 2002.

John established Thomas the Baker in 1981 along with his wife Valerie and two sons Gareth and Simon, now with two granddaughters Sian and Bethany closely linked to the business, it remains very much a family affair.