Is Deluxe Wholemeal Seeded Farmhouse ultra-processed?

800g Wholemeal sliced breads Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Gluten
E322 Lecithins

31 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score A

Less processed wholemeal sliced 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

wheat flour, water, mixed seeds 14% (brown linseed, brown linseed, sunflower seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, millet seeds, golden linseed), yeast, wheat gluten (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), malted barley flour, brown sugar (processing marker), wheat flour, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), soya flour, spirit vinegar, palm oil, palm fat, rapeseed oil, rapeseed lecithins (ultra-processing marker), caramelised sugar syrup (processing marker), ascorbic acid

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E322 Lecithins

As written on the pack

wholemeal wheat flour, water, mixed seeds 14% (brown linseed, toasted brown linseed, sunflower seeds, toasted sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, millet seeds, golden linseed), yeast, wheat gluten, salt, malted barley flour, brown sugar, fermented wheat flour, wheat flour ( wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), soya flour, spirit vinegar, palm oil, palm fat, rapeseed oil, emulsifier (rapeseed lecithins), caramelised sugar syrup, 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.

E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.

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 38 wholemeal sliced breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 22nd. 89% of the wholemeal sliced 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 38 wholemeal sliced breads, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20511296, last edited 8 September 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.