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A green loaf of bread flavoured with matcha, white chocolate and fruit has been crowned the best loaf in Britain.

The bread, called Brioche Japonais, was baked in Derbyshire by a woman who started baking as a hobby.

Miyo Aoetsu now runs Kuma-San Bakehouse professionally from her home in Matlock, supplying local businesses and baking loaves for customers to collect.

Her award-winning loaf was inspired by her Japanese heritage and also her time living in France.

"In my country it's quite common to use matcha for sweets, cakes, cookies and things like that," she said.

"There's the bitterness of the matcha and the sweetness of the chocolate and white fruit, so the balance of the taste is quite exciting."

The bread won top spot in the Britain's Best Loaf competition, run by trade magazine British Baker, and also won the Innovation category.

Craft Bakers Association president Neil Woods said: "In all the years I've been judging, I haven't seen anything like this before."

The loaf was praised by the judges for its "outstanding use of ingredients, wonderful texture, and decadent white chocolate inclusions", which they said remained "almost gooey to deliver a wonderful eating experience".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-65572068

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Doesnt look very appetising to me