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Is Chef Select Garlic Baguettes ultra-processed?

420g Baguettes Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Chef Select Garlic Baguettes

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed baguettes

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

baguette (fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), water, yeast, salt, calcium propionate, ascorbic acid), garlic 23%, parsley butter 23% (unsalted butter 18.86%, garlic purée 3.22%, parsley 0.575%, salt, concentrated lemon juice)

Additives: E282 Calcium propionate

As written on the pack

baguette (fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), water, yeast, salt, calcium propionate, ascorbic acid), garlic and parsley butter 23% (unsalted butter 82% (milk), garlic purée 14%, parsley 2.5%, salt, concentrated lemon juice).

What makes it processed

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.
  • Bread An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 67 baguettes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 24th. 63% of the baguettes 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 67 baguettes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20719562, last edited 27 March 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.