Is Home Pride Wheat Enriched Bread ultra-processed?

Wheat breads Sold in the United States

Pack of Home Pride Wheat Enriched 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:

  • 44 ingredients
  • 14 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed wheat 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 (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, high fructose corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), yeast, whole wheat flour, rye flour, wheat bran, wheat gluten (ultra-processing marker), molasses (processing marker), contains 2% and less of each of the following (salt (processing marker)), butter (processing marker) (made from milk), soybean oil (processing marker), wheat flour, vinegar, honey (processing marker), dough conditioners (contains one and more of the following (sodium stearoyl lactylate (ultra-processing marker)), calcium stearoyl lactylate, monoglycerides, mono- and diglycerides (ultra-processing marker), distilled monoglycerides, calcium peroxide, calcium iodate, datem (ultra-processing marker), ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides, enzymes, ascorbic acid), monocalcium phosphate, wheat starch (processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), soy flour, calcium carbonate (ultra-processing marker), ammonium sulfate, calcium sulfate

Additives: E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E300 Ascorbic acid , 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 , E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate , E516 Calcium sulphate , E517 Ammonium sulphate , E916 Calcium iodate , E930 Calcium peroxide

As written on the pack

Unbleached enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, whole wheat flour, rye flour, wheat bran, wheat gluten, molasses, contains 2% or less of each of the following: salt, butter* (made from milk), soybean oil, cultured wheat flour, vinegar, honey, dough conditioners (contains one or more of the following: sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium stearoyl lactylate, monoglycerides, mono - and diglycerides, distilled monoglycerides, calcium peroxide, calcium iodate, datem, ethoxylated mono - and diglycerides, enzymes, ascorbic acid), monocalcium phosphate, wheat starch, soy lecithin, soy flour, calcium carbonate, ammonium sulfate, calcium sulfate.

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.
6 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 228 wheat breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 227th. 92% of the wheat 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 228 wheat breads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0072250011181, last edited 20 February 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.