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Is BFree Wholegrain Pitta Breads ultra-processed?

4 x 55 g Pitas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of BFree Wholegrain Pitta Breads

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:

  • 38 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed pitas

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

water, flours 25% (sorghum flour, millet flour rice flour, buckwheat flour, teff flour, amaranth flour, quinoa flour), corn starch, patato starch, bamboo fibre tapioca starch, thickening agents (hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, carboxy methylcelluose, xanthan gum, guar gum), brown milled linseed, glycerol, inulin, yeast, sourdough (fermented rice, comm, quinoa flour), psyllium, mustard pea protein, pea fibre, potato fibre, apple juice concentrate rapeseed oil, salt, apple extract, preservative (sorbic acid), acids (citric acid, malic acid, tartaric acid), for all allergens see ingredients in bold

Additives: E200 Sorbic acid , E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid , E334 L(+)-tartaric acid , E412 Guar gum , E415 Xanthan gum , E422 Glycerol , E464 Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose

As written on the pack

water, wholegrain flours 25% (sorghum flour, millet flour wholegrain rice flour, buckwheat flour, teff flour, amaranth flour, quinoa flour), corn starch, patato starch, bamboo fibre tapioca starch, thickening agents (hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, carboxy methylcelluose, xanthan gum, guar gum), brown milled linseed, glycerol, inulin, yeast, sourdough (fermented rice, comm and quinoa flour), psyllium (mustard pea protein, pea fibre, potato fibre, apple juice concentrate rapeseed oil, salt, apple extract, preservative (sorbic acid), acids (citric acid, malic acid, tartaric acid), for all allergens see ingredients in bold,

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.

  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • E464 Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 43 pitas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 41st. 37% of the pitas 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 43 pitas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5391521691026, last edited 6 May 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.