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Is Coop Bakery Soft White Rolls ultra-processed?

Bread rolls Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Coop Bakery Soft White Rolls

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed bread rolls

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

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Salt, Emulsifiers (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Vegetable, diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides), Yeast, Sugar, Palm Oil, Palm Fat, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic acid)

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids.

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Fermented Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Salt, Emulsifiers (Mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids Vegetable, diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono and diglycerides), Yeast, Sugar, Palm Oil, Palm Fat, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic acid).

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.

2 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 63 bread rolls

From least to most processed, this one ranks 23rd. 79% of the bread rolls 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 63 bread rolls, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000128419901, last edited 14 June 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.