Is Fitzgeralds Multiseed & Cereal Baguettes ultra-processed?

250g Baguettes Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Emulsifier
Gluten
E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

25 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed baguettes

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

Cereals 59% (Wheat flour, Millet, Rye flour, Oat flour), Water, Wheat sourdough, Seeds 3.4% (Brown, Yellow linseeds, Sunflower seeds), Yeast, Ethyl-Alcohol, Salt (processing marker), Wheat gluten (ultra-processing marker), Malted Wheat flour, Malted Barley flour, Malted Wheat flour, Deactivated yeast, Emulsifier (ultra-processing marker) (mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids (ultra-processing marker)), Malted Barley flour, Malted Barley extract, Antioxidant (Ascorbic acid)

Additives: E1510 Ethanol , E300 Ascorbic acid , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

Cereals 59% (Wheat flour, Millet, Rye flour, Oat flour), Water, Wheat sourdough, Seeds 3.4% (Brown and Yellow linseeds, Sunflower seeds), Yeast, Ethyl-Alcohol, Salt, Wheat gluten, Malted Wheat flour, Roasted Malted Barley flour, Roasted Malted Wheat flour, Deactivated yeast, Emulsifier (Mono - and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Malted Barley flour, Malted Barley extract, Antioxidant (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.

E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.

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.

1 ingredient 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 67 baguettes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 58th. 63% of the baguettes 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 67 baguettes, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5099077004238, 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.