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Is Doves Farm Seeded bread mix ultra-processed?

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Pack of Doves Farm Seeded bread mix

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:

  • 21 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

potato starch, tapioca starch, seed mix 13.5% (sunflower 1.9285714285714286%, poppy 3.857142857142857%, pumpkin 2.5714285714285716%, teff 2.5714285714285716%, flaxseed 2.5714285714285716%), chickpea flour, ice, maize flour, yeast, sugar, salt, psyllium husk, thickener (xanthan gum), vinegar (maltodextrin, spirit vinegar), carob

Additives: E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

potato starch, tapioca starch, seed mix 13.5% (sunflower 1.5%, poppy 3%, pumpkin 2%, teff 2%, flaxseed 2%), chickpea flour, ice flour, maize flour, yeast, sugar, salt, psyllium husk powder, thickener (xanthan gum), vinegar powder (maltodextrin, spirit vinegar), carob.

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.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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 178 products without gluten

From least to most processed, this one ranks 112th. 74% of the products without gluten 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5011766010719, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.