This crispy richness can be used as a coating for fried and baked foods or as a binder in meatball, meatloaf, and vegetable burgers. Panko bread crumbs, like regular bread, are rich in healthy calories, carbohydrates, protein, sodium, potassium, calcium and have low fat, sugar, and fibre. Panko bread crumbs absorb less oil and grease this makes breaded fried foods less heavy.Ĭommercial panko breadcrumbs may be made of wheat flour, yeast, oil, and salt, and, unlike other bread crumbs, they come unseasoned. This gives panko its light, crispy and flaky texture. Panko breadcrumbs are made from a particular kind of white bread without crusts – never from whole wheat bread. The word panko comes from Japanese, and panko is used for light breading in Japanese cuisine. Panko bread crumbs are light and crisp with a coarser texture than fine, dry crumbs. Panko bread crumb is one of the three most common types of breadcrumbs, with the other two being plain bread crumbs and Italian bread crumbs.
