Is Aldi Malted Bloomer Bread ultra-processed?

800g Bread white from wheat flour of the highest grade GOST 26987-86 Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Preservative
Salt

19 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score B

Less processed white 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

wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, niacin, iron, thiamin), water, kibbled malted wheat 6%, rye flour, yeast, rapeseed oil, salt (processing marker), wheat bran, wheat semolina, malted barley flour, preservative (processing marker) (calcium propionate), flour treatment agent (ascorbic acid)

Additives: E282 Calcium propionate , E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, niacin, iron, thiamin), water, kibbled malted wheat (6%), rye flour, yeast, rapeseed oil, salt, wheat bran, wheat semolina, malted barley flour, preservative: calcium propionate, flour treatment agent: ascorbic acid

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 22 bread white from wheat flour of the highest grade GOST 26987-86

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 68% of the bread white from wheat flour of the highest grade GOST 26987-86 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 22 bread white from wheat flour of the highest grade GOST 26987-86, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600184197, last edited 9 July 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 B (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.