Is bread once alive or never alive?

Here's the breakdown:

* Wheat: Wheat grains are seeds, and seeds are alive. They contain the potential to grow into a new plant.

* Flour: When wheat is ground into flour, the living cells in the grain are disrupted. The flour itself is no longer alive.

* Bread: Bread is made from flour, water, yeast, and sometimes other ingredients. Yeast is a living organism that uses the sugars in the flour to produce carbon dioxide gas, causing the bread to rise. However, the bread itself is not alive.

So, while bread comes from a living source, it's not alive on its own.