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Is Great Value Italian Style Bread Crumbs ultra-processed?

1pcs Bread crumbs Sold in the United States and Germany

Pack of Great Value Italian Style Bread Crumbs

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:

  • 44 ingredients
  • 2 additives

Less processed bread crumbs

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

Bread Crumbs, Flour, Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Yeast, Salt, Vegetable Oil, Soybean Oil, Cottonseed Oil, Canola Oil, White Corn Flour, Yellow Corn Flour, Corn Meal, White Corn Meal, Yellow Corn Meal, Citric Acid, Grain Vinegar, Potato Flour, Soy Flour, Wheat Bran, Oat Bran, Rye Flour, Nonfat Dry Milk, Calcium Propionate, Sesame Seeds, Caraway Seeds, Egg, Salt, Pecorino Romano Cheese, Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes, Parsley, Garlic Powder, Spices, Onion Powder, Oregano

Additives: E282 Calcium propionate , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Toasted Bread Crumbs, Enriched Flour, Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Yeast, Salt, Vegetable Oil, Soybean Oil, Cottonseed Oil, Canola Oil, White Corn Flour, Yellow Corn Flour, Corn Meal, White Corn Meal, Yellow Corn Meal, Citric Acid, Grain Vinegar, Potato Flour, Soy Flour, Wheat Bran, Oat Bran, Rye Flour, Nonfat Dry Milk, Calcium Propionate, Sesame Seeds, Caraway Seeds, Egg, Salt, Grated Pecorino Romano Cheese, Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes, Dehydrated Parsley Flakes, Garlic Powder, Spices, Onion Powder, Oregano

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • 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.
4 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 37 bread crumbs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 35th. 54% of the bread crumbs 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 37 bread crumbs, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0078742374895, last edited 19 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.