Is Bob's Red Mill Cornbread Mix ultra-processed?

20 oz Baking Mixes Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

E415 Xanthan gum
E450 Diphosphates

13 ingredients
7 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed baking Mixes

Almond Flour Pancake & Waffle Mix Original Simple Mills 7 ingredients · 4 additives NOVA group 3
Organic Classic Pancake & Waffle Mix Birch Benders 9 ingredients · 4 additives NOVA group 3
Almond Flour Baking Mix Brownie Simple Mills 11 ingredients · 2 additives NOVA group 3
Original Pancake & Waffle Mix Pearl Milling Company 14 ingredients · 5 additives NOVA group 3

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

Cornmeal, Potato Starch (processing marker), Sorghum Flour, Cane Sugar (processing marker), Corn Flour, Tapioca Flour (processing marker), Baking Powder (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (ultra-processing marker), Baking Soda, Cornstarch (processing marker), Monocalcium Phosphate), Salt (processing marker), Xanthan Gum (ultra-processing marker)

Additives: E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E415 Xanthan gum , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Whole Grain Cornmeal, Potato Starch, Whole Grain Sorghum Flour, Cane Sugar, Whole Grain Corn Flour, Tapioca Flour, Baking Powder (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Baking Soda, Cornstarch, Monocalcium Phosphate), Salt, Xanthan Gum.

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.

E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.

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.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 70 baking Mixes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 32nd. 86% of the baking Mixes 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 70 baking Mixes, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0039978114617, last edited 2 November 2025), 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.