Is Kirkland Signature Butter Croissant (12 count) ultra-processed?

28 oz Butter croissants Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Gluten

23 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed butter croissants

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, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), butter (processing marker), water, milk 2% (milk, vitamins a palmiaye, d3), sugar (processing marker), yeast, eggs, nonfat dry milk (processing marker), whole milk powder (processing marker), wheat gluten (ultra-processing marker), ascorbic acid, enzymes dried eggs, skim milk, soy flour

As written on the pack

enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), butter (unsalted), water, 2% milk (milk, vitamins a palmiaye, d3), sugar, yeast, eggs, nonfat dry milk, whole milk powder, wheat gluten, ascorbic acid, enzymes dried eggs, skim milk, soy flour

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.

Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.

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.

Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 20 butter croissants

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 65% of the butter croissants 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 20 butter croissants, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0096619331161, last edited 21 September 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
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.