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Is Great Value Honey Wheat Bread ultra-processed?

20 oz Bread loaves Sold in the United States

Pack of Great Value Honey Wheat 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:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 7 additives

Less processed bread loaves

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

enriched wheat flour (flour, malted barley flour, reduced iron, niacin, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin, folic acid), water, yeast, honey, high fructose corn syrup, wheat gluten, whole wheat flour, wheat bran, soybean oil, salt, calcium propionate (preservative), grain vinegar, datem, ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides, monoglycerides, calcium sulfate, monocalcium phosphate, cornstarch, soy lecithin, potassium iodate, enzymes, Contains a bioengineered food ingredient

Additives: E282 Calcium propionate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids.

As written on the pack

enriched wheat flour [flour, malted barley flour, reduced iron, niacin, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin (vitamin b2), folic acid], water, yeast, honey, high fructose corn syrup, wheat gluten, whole wheat flour, wheat bran, soybean oil, salt, calcium propionate (preservative), grain vinegar, datem, ethoxylated mono - and diglycerides, monoglycerides, calcium sulfate, monocalcium phosphate, cornstarch, soy lecithin, potassium iodate, enzymes. Contains wheat and soy. May contain milk and sesame. Contains a bioengineered food ingredient.

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.

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.

  • 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.
  • High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
5 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 28 bread loaves

From least to most processed, this one ranks 28th. 68% of the bread loaves 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 28 bread loaves, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0078742036397, last edited 14 September 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.