Wheat flours, from least to most processed

We track 83 wheat flours, 14% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Strong Wholemeal Bread Flour.

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What makes wheat flours ultra-processed

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

Unprocessed or minimally processed (70)

  1. 1 Strong Wholemeal Bread Flour Belbake · 1.5 kg NOVA group 1
  2. 2 Wholemeal Rye Flour imp Doves Farm · 1 kg NOVA group 1
  3. 3 Wholemeal Spelt Flour Doves Farm · 1kg NOVA group 1
  4. 4 Very Strong Wholemeal Bread Flour Allinson’s · 1 kg NOVA group 1
  5. 5 Wholemeal bread flour Sainsbury's NOVA group 1
  6. 6 Wholemeal Bread Flour Asda · 1.5kg NOVA group 1
  7. 7 Plain Flour Homepride · 1kg NOVA group 1
  8. 8 Oat flour imp Doves farm · 450g NOVA group 1
  9. 9 Fine Plain Wholemeal Flour Doves farm · 1kg NOVA group 1
  10. 10 Wholemeal strong bread flour Doves farm NOVA group 1
  11. 11 Organic wholemeal flour Waitrose NOVA group 1
  12. 12 Very Strong Wholemeal Flour Allinson · 1.5 kg NOVA group 1
  13. 13 Whole Wheat Flour Gold Medal NOVA group 1
  14. 14 wholemeal flour Supervalu · 2kg NOVA group 1
  15. 15 Very strong wholemeal bread flour Marriages · 1500 NOVA group 1
  16. 16 Vetemjöl 2.0 Myllärin · 2 kg NOVA group 1
  17. 17 Unbleached All-Purpose Flour King Arthur Baking Company · 2.27 kg NOVA group 1
  18. 18 Bread Flour King Arthur Baking · 5 lbs NOVA group 1
  19. 19 all-purpose FLOUR Kirkland Signature · 4.54 kg NOVA group 1
  20. 20 Unbleached Bread Flour King Arthur Baking Company · 10 lbs NOVA group 1
  21. 21 Unbleached All-purpose Flour Organic King Arthur Baking Company NOVA group 1
  22. 22 100% Organic Unbleached All-Purpose Flour King Arthur · 5 lbs NOVA group 1
  23. 23 Mamone Vetemjöl Berte Qvarn · 2 kg NOVA group 1
  24. 24 Plain Flour The Healthy Baker · 1kg NOVA group 1
  25. 25 Plain flour Aldi · 1.5kg NOVA group 1
  26. 26 British Plain White Flour Co-Op · 1kg NOVA group 1
  27. 27 Plain flour McDougalls · 500 g NOVA group 1
  28. 28 Strong White Bread Flour Belbake · 1.5kg NOVA group 1
  29. 29 Plain Flour Tesco · 1.5kg NOVA group 1
  30. 30 Plain Flour Belbake · 1.5kg NOVA group 1
  31. 31 Stong White Bread Flour Aldi NOVA group 1
  32. 32 Strong white flour Tesco · 1,5 kg NOVA group 1
  33. 33 Organic Plain Flour Tesco · 1kg NOVA group 1
  34. 34 Organic Strong White Flour Tesco · 1 kg NOVA group 1
  35. 35 Very Strong Bread Flour Tesco Finest · 1kg NOVA group 1
  36. 36 Plain flour Stockwell & Co NOVA group 1
  37. 37 Essential waitrose plain white flour Essential Waitrose · 1.5 kg NOVA group 1
  38. 38 Strong white flour Carr’s NOVA group 1
  39. 39 Strong White Bread Flour Aldi · 1.5 kg NOVA group 1
  40. 40 Plain White Flour Essential Waitrose · 500g NOVA group 1

Showing the first 40 of 70. The narrower categories above, or search, find the rest.

Processed culinary ingredient (1)

  1. 71 Yellow Vegetable Curry Cook NOVA group 2

Ultra-processed food (12)

  1. 72 Strong white bread flour Sainsburys NOVA group 4
  2. 73 Type “00” Pizza Flour Ooni NOVA group 4
  3. 74 Pasta & Pizza Flour ‘00’ Grade Tesco Finest NOVA group 4
  4. 75 multiseed bread mix Tesco · 500g NOVA group 4
  5. 76 Strong White Bread Flour Essential Waitrose · 1.5 kg NOVA group 4
  6. 77 Vetemjöl special Garant · 2 kg NOVA group 4
  7. 78 Vetemjöl special Kvarnvingen · 2 kg NOVA group 4
  8. 79 Perfectly Crafted Multigrain Nature's Own · 22 oz NOVA group 4
  9. 80 Self Raising Flour Homepride · 1kg NOVA group 4
  10. 81 Pizza Base Mix Morrisons NOVA group 4
  11. 82 Organic Whole Wheat Bread Trader Joe's · 22 oz NOVA group 4
  12. 83 Carb Balance Flour Tortilla Wraps Mission · 24 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.