Is General Mills Betty crocker pancake and baking mix ultra-processed?

Pancake mixes Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Dextrose
Glucose
E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

19 ingredients
6 additives

Less processed pancake mixes

Almond Flour Pancake & Waffle Mix Original Simple Mills 7 ingredients · 4 additives NOVA group 3
Organic Classic Pancake & Waffle Mix Birch Benders 9 ingredients · 4 additives NOVA group 3
Protein Almond Flour Pancake Mix Original Simple Mills 8 ingredients · 4 additives NOVA group 3
Original Pancake & Waffle Mix Pearl Milling Company 14 ingredients · 5 additives NOVA group 3

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, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Corn Starch (processing marker), Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Palm Oil, Leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), Canola Oil, Salt (processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), datem (ultra-processing marker), Distilled Monoglycerides

Additives: E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E541 Sodium aluminium phosphate

As written on the pack

Enriched Flour Bleached (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Corn Starch, Dextrose, Palm Oil, Leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), Canola Oil, Salt, Sugar, DATEM, Distilled Monoglycerides

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.

E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.

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.

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 43 pancake mixes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 35th. 79% of the pancake mixes 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 43 pancake mixes, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0016000430594, last edited 8 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
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The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
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