Is Canyon Bakehouse 100% Whole Grain Bread Country White ultra-processed?

15 oz White breads 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

16 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score C

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

water, brown rice flour, tapioca flour (processing marker), sorghum flour, cane sugar (processing marker), potato flour, non-gmo canola oil, xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker), egg whites, eggs, yeast, culturedbrown rice flour, sea salt (processing marker), vinegar (cane sugar vinegar), sunfl

Additives: E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

water, brown rice flour, tapioca flour, whole grain sorghum flour, organic cane sugar, potato flour, non-gmo expeller pressed canola oil, xanthan gum, egg whites, eggs, yeast, culturedbrown rice flour, sea salt, vinegar (organic cane sugar vinegar), sunfl

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.

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 367 white breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 72nd. 86% of the white 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 367 white breads, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0853584002287, last edited 8 August 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.