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Bakery products, from least to most processed

We track 43 bakery products, 60% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Neapolitan-Style ’00’ Pizza Flour.

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What makes bakery products ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of bakery products that contain each:

Unprocessed or minimally processed (2)

  1. 1 Neapolitan-Style ’00’ Pizza Flour King Arthur Baking Company 1
  2. 2 Wheat organic pizza base Biona · 300 g 1

Processed food (15)

  1. 3 Italian sea salt & olive oil pizza croccantina Dunnes Stores · 150 g 3
  2. 4 Pumpernickel Lidl · 500 gram 3
  3. 5 Pizza bases Fitzgerald's 3
  4. 6 Pizzadeg Axfood · 300 g 3
  5. 7 Sourdough pizza base Jus-Rol · 400 g 3
  6. 8 Sourdough Pizza Base Crosta & Mollica · 270g 3
  7. 9 Crumpets Jason's Sourdough 3
  8. 10 tesco pizza base mix Tesco 3
  9. 11 2 Pizza Bases Sainsbury's · 260g 3
  10. 12 Ready to Bake Pizza Dough Trader Joe's 3
  11. 13 Thin & crispy Pizza bases Lidl 3
  12. 14 Kalamata Olive Bloomer Sainsbury's Taste the Difference · 400g 3
  13. 15 Baguettes Tomato & Basil Trattoria Alfredo · 750 g 3
  14. 16 White Sandwich Loaf 800g 800 g 3
  15. 17 Dough Balls Pizza Express · 200g 3

Ultra-processed food (26)

  1. 18 All Butter Pastry Twists Duc De Coeur · 125g 4
  2. 19 Pizza dough original The Northern Dough Co. · 440g 4
  3. 20 Cranberry & toasted pecan baton M&S · 380g 4
  4. 21 Taste the Difference Super Seeded Grain Loaf Yoplait 4
  5. 22 Stenugnsbakad Pizzabotten Vete Fontana · 2 x 180 g 4
  6. 23 M&S Fruit Granola Squares Marks & Spencer · 5 squares 4
  7. 24 Pizza Dough Jus-Rol 4
  8. 25 Pizza dough GreenVale 4
  9. 26 Ready to roll pizza dough Pizza Express 4
  10. 27 Pre-rolled pizza dough Pizza Express · 400g 4
  11. 28 Flamed Baked Pizza Based Loyd Grossman 4
  12. 29 Pizza bases Tesco · 220 g 4
  13. 30 Crusty Rolls Sainsburys Taste The Difference 4
  14. 31 Wholemeal Muffins Morrisons · 4 4
  15. 32 Buttermilk Pikelets Marks & Spencer · 6 4
  16. 33 Woodford Pizza Base Lidl 4
  17. 34 Pizzakit ICA · 600g 4
  18. 35 Pizza Kit Monte Castello 1 4
  19. 36 Pizzakit med vitlökskryddad tomatsås. Coop · 600 g 4
  20. 37 Pizzadeg XXL Pop! Bakery · 550 g 4
  21. 38 8 Seeded Tortilla Wraps Waitrose & Partners · 8 4
  22. 39 4 Richly Fruited Hot Cross Buns Waitrose 4
  23. 40 Hot Cross Buns Tesco 4
  24. 41 8 Pains au Chocolat Pains au chocolat Asda · 360g 4
  25. 42 Bakery 4 Jam Ball Doughnuts Co-op · 4 doughnuts, 284g 4
  26. 43 Salted caramel & chocolate hot cross buns Tesco finest 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.