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Is Favorite Day Bakery multigrain sliced bread ultra-processed?

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Pack of Favorite Day Bakery multigrain sliced bread

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:

  • 51 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

flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, grain blend (rye flour, cracked wheat, corn grits, barley flakes, rolled oats, flaxseeds, rye malt, sesame seeds, millet, wheat flour, wheat gluten, malted barley flour, malted barley extract, spices, ascorbic acid), oats, nonfat dry milk, contains less than 2% of canola oil, cracked whole wheat, dough conditioners (enriched wheat flour, ascorbic acid, enzymes), flax seeds, honey, malt (malted barley, wheat flour, dextrose), millet, preservatives (wheat starch, wheat flour, citric acid), salt, sesame seeds, sugar, sunflower kernels, vital wheat gluten, white rye flour, yeast

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, grain blend (rye flour, cracked wheat, corn grits, barley flakes, rolled oats, flaxseeds, rye malt, sesame seeds, millet, wheat flour, wheat gluten, malted barley flour, malted barley extract, spices, ascorbic acid), oats, nonfat dry milk, contains less than 2% of canola oil, cracked whole wheat, dough conditioners (enriched wheat flour, ascorbic acid, enzymes), flax seeds, honey, malt (malted barley, wheat flour, dextrose), millet, preservatives (cultured wheat starch, wheat flour, citric acid), salt, sesame seeds, sugar, sunflower kernels, vital wheat gluten, white rye flour, yeast.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • 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.
6 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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,388 breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1534th. 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 0085239032374, last edited 19 February 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.