To provide a method for keeping and packaging bread in which bread can freshly be preserved over a long period in a state in which flavor, taste, etc. and safety in an aseptic state are retained while keeping water content as the bread.

In packaging of the bread softly baked by foam, small holes are bored in a part of packaging bag in which the bread is stored to imperfectly package the bread and air is pulled out from the interior of the packaging bag through small holes and inert gas is poured into the packaging bag by differential pressure of vacuuming to replace air in the packaging bag and in the foam of the bread with the inert gas and small holes are sealed so as to retain the replaced state to complete packaging and sterilization of the bread is carried out by ultraviolet irradiation immediately before packaging or after packaging.