Sweetbread

Sweetbread is the name of a dish made of the thymus or the pancreas of a young animal. It is not a bread.

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The two organs serve very different biological purposes, but look fairly similar and so are considered, when cooking, to be comparable. Thymus sweetbreads are slightly longer and more irregular, with pancreas sweetbreads being larger and more rounded.

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Sweetbread is highly perishable and is considered a good source of vitamins and minerals.

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