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Is Bob's Red Mill Homestyle Pancake & Waffle Mix - Just add water ultra-processed?

24 oz Pancake mixes Sold in the United States

Pack of Bob's Red Mill Homestyle Pancake & Waffle Mix - Just add water

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 4 additives

Less processed cereals and their products

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

flour (wheat flour, malted Barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), buttermilk powder (milk, milk, buttermilk), sugar, butter (butter, nonfat dry milk, vitamin E), baking powder (mono- calcium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, cornstarch), baking soda, cream of tartar, egg white powder, salt

Additives: E336 Potassium tartrates , E336i Monopotassium tartrate , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate

As written on the pack

Unbleached enriched flour (wheat flour, malted Barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), organic buttermilk powder (organic milk, organic milk, organic buttermilk), sugar, organic butter powder (organic butter, organic nonfat dry milk, vitamin E), baking powder (mono calcium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, cornstarch), baking soda, cream of tartar, egg white powder, salt. Contains: wheat, milk, egg.

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

Culinary ingredients

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

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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 43 pancake mixes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 79% of the pancake 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 43 pancake mixes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0039978002372, last edited 26 May 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.