Bread loaves, from least to most processed

We track 28 bread loaves, 68% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is 35hr Sourdough Mini Loaf White.

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What makes bread loaves ultra-processed

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

Unprocessed or minimally processed (1)

  1. 1 35hr Sourdough Mini Loaf White Woolworths Bakery NOVA group 1

Processed food (8)

  1. 2 JätteFranska Pågen · 1.1 kg NOVA group 3
  2. 3 M&S sourdough baguette Marks & Spencer · 350g NOVA group 3
  3. 4 Baguette Wildfarmed · 350g NOVA group 3
  4. 5 French baguette take & bake Specially Selected · 270 g NOVA group 3
  5. 6 Mini-baguette Eldorado · 300 g NOVA group 3
  6. 7 White Baguettes Sainsbury's · 2pcs NOVA group 3
  7. 8 White Farmhouse Loaf Sainsbury's · 800g NOVA group 3
  8. 9 White sourdough baguette Coop NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (19)

  1. 10 Wholemeal & Seeds Bürgen · 500 NOVA group 4
  2. 11 Baguettes Lidl · 300g NOVA group 4
  3. 12 Baguette Garlic Butter M&S Food · 210g NOVA group 4
  4. 13 2 White Baguettes Co-op · 300g NOVA group 4
  5. 14 Part baked baguettes Morrisons NOVA group 4
  6. 15 Bake At Hone Multiseed Stonebaked Baguettes Asda Exceptional · 2 x 125 g NOVA group 4
  7. 16 Baguette Menissez · 250 g NOVA group 4
  8. 17 The Bakery at asda Multigrain Loaf Asda · 800g NOVA group 4
  9. 18 Tesco Finest Seeded Baguette Tesco NOVA group 4
  10. 19 Powerseed Organic Bread Dave's Killer Bread · 25 oz NOVA group 4
  11. 20 Soft White Bread Nature's Own Life Keto · 454g NOVA group 4
  12. 21 2 Bake at Home White Baguettes with Sourdough Tesco · 250g NOVA group 4
  13. 22 Spicy Chicken Milanese & Mozzarella on Sourdough Coco Di Mama NOVA group 4
  14. 23 Garlic Baguette Stamford Street NOVA group 4
  15. 24 GARLIC BAGUETTE with a garlic & parsley filling Sainsbury's NOVA group 4
  16. 25 Garlic Baguettes Lidl · 340g NOVA group 4
  17. 26 Garlic baguettes Sainsbury's · 390g NOVA group 4
  18. 27 Minibaguetter Schär · 300 g NOVA group 4
  19. 28 Honey Wheat Bread Great Value · 20 oz NOVA group 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.