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Is 6 brown sandwich thins ultra-processed?

Breads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of 6 brown sandwich thins

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed breads

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

6 sliced thin bread rolls made with white and wheat flour ingredients wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), wheat flour, water, yeast, wheat gluten, barley malt flour, vegetable oils (rapeseed vegetable oils, palm vegetable oils), salt, dextrose, emulsifiers (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids), stearoyl-2-lactylates, stabilisers (xanthan gum), carboxy methyl cellulose, soya flour, preservative (calcium propionate), palm fat, flour treatment agents (ascorbic acid), l-cysteine, ong including cereals containing gluten, see stor and wit pur us be ta ilargon $

Additives: E282 Calcium propionate , E300 Ascorbic acid , E415 Xanthan gum , E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E920 L-cysteine

As written on the pack

6 sliced thin bread rolls made with white and wholemeal wheat flour ingredients wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), wholemeal wheat flour, water, yeast, wheat gluten, barley malt flour, vegetable oils (rapeseed and palm), salt, dextrose, emulsifiers: mono-and diglycerides of fatty acids, stearoyl-2-lactylates, stabilisers: xanthan gum, carboxy methyl cellulose, soya flour, preservative: calcium propionate, palm fat, flour treatment agents: ascorbic acid, l-cysteine, ong including cereals containing gluten, see stor and wit pur us be ta ilargon $

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
3 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,388 breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2260th. 71% of the breads here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 2,388 breads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489149019, last edited 27 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.