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Bread is one of the most important staple food in almost all countries including Latvia and plays an important role in human nutrition but affect of time pressured lifestyle and changes in eating habits, it consumption significantly decreases and do not reach recommended amount need to be consumed. Therefore the purpose of the research was to find out and evaluate within the gender in adult group amount of nutrients covers reference daily intake (RDI) by consuming wheat bread, rye bread and sweet sour bread. Results show that by consuming rye bread female covers only 7.1 % of protein 1.2 % of fat and 11.1 % of carbohydrates from RDI while male - 5.9 % of protein, 1.0 % of fat and 9.3 % of carbohydrates which is a part of total 28.6 % of nutrients need to be taken in accordance with WHO recommendations. The same conclusion has been done in insufficient consumption of wheat bread and sweet-sour bread. Important deviations from RDI were found on mineral substances and vitamins as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]