Is Heckers, unbleached forever!, self-rising flour ultra-processed?

Cereals and their products Sold in the United States

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt

11 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed cereals and their products

Sprouted Rolled Oats One Degree Organic Foods 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Old Fashioned Oats Quaker Oats 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Quick 1-Minute Oats Quaker Oats 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Old Fashioned 100% Whole Grain Rolled Oats Quaker Oats 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1

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

wheat flour (niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), salt (processing marker), sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, malted barley flour

Additives: E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E541 Sodium aluminium phosphate

As written on the pack

Unbleached wheat flour enriched (niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), salt, sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, malted barley flour.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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 5,066 cereals and their products

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2154th. 57% of the cereals and their products 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 5,066 cereals and their products, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0040300041006, last edited 10 May 2025), 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 E (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.