Is Good Grain Bakery Gluten Free Sourdough Loaf ultra-processed?

Gluten-free breads Sold in the United Kingdom and Spain

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Vegetable fiber

12 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed gluten-free 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

flour (tapioca flour (processing marker), brown rice, potato starch (processing marker), maize meal, quinoa flour), starter (brown rice flour, quinoa flour), rapeseed oil, psyllium husk (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker)

As written on the pack

Organic gluten free flour (organic tapioca flour, organic brown rice, organic potato starch, organic maize meal, organic quinoa flour), organic starter (organic brown rice flour, organic quinoa flour) organic rapeseed oil, organic psyllium husk, salt,

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.

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.

2 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 55 gluten-free breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 95% of the gluten-free 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 55 gluten-free breads, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060452760162, 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.