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Is Dempster's 12 Grain ultra-processed?

600g Breads Sold in Canada and France

Pack of Dempster's 12 Grain

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:

  • 42 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed 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

Whole wheat flour full, Water, Flax seed, Rye flour, Sunflower seed, Oat flakes, Flaked wheat malt, Millet, Triticale, Sesame seeds, Cornmeal, Rice flour, Buckwheat flour, Oatmeal, Barley, Grain mix, Sugar, Glucose fructose, Yeast, Oat, Gluten, Wheat, Fancy and black, Molasses, Raisin, Water, Syrup of raisins soluble, Salt, Canola, Soya bean, Vegetable oil, Molasses powder, Vinegar, Monoglycerides plant, e282, Esters of tartaric mono- and diglycerides acetyles, Stearoyl 2 lactylate, e200, Lcithine soy, The order can varier, The rules methods of recycling varies across canada, This package may not be recyclable in votre region

Additives: E200 Sorbic acid , E282 Calcium propionate

As written on the pack

Whole wheat flour full, Water, Flax seed, Rye flour, Sunflower seed, Oat flakes, Flaked wheat malt, Millet, Triticale, Sesame seeds, Cornmeal, Rice flour, Buckwheat flour, Oatmeal, Barley, Grain mix, Sugar, Glucose fructose, Yeast, Oat, Gluten, Wheat, Fancy and black, Molasses, Raisin, Water, Syrup of raisins soluble, Salt, Canola, Soya bean, Vegetable oil, Molasses powder, Vinegar, Monoglycerides plant, E282, Esters of tartaric mono and diglycerides acetyles, Stearoyl 2 lactylate, E200, Lcithine soy, The order can varier, The rules methods of recycling varies across canada, This package may not be recyclable in votre region

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,388 breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1570th. 71% of the 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 2,388 breads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0068721722342, last edited 16 May 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.