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Is Lewis Bake Shop Avocado & Seeds Bread ultra-processed?

28 g Sliced breads Sold in the United States

Pack of Lewis Bake Shop Avocado & Seeds 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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed sliced 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

enriched wheat flour, water, sugar, wheat gluten, yeast, sunflower seeds, seed mix (millet, flax, sunflower, chia, quinoa), OIL (avocado oil, avocado oil), salt, calcium propionate, fumaric acid, sorbic acid, onion, garlic, ammonium sulfate, citric acid, ascorbic acid, maltodextrin, modified potato starch, dicalcium phosphate, vitamin d3, tricalcium phosphate

Additives: E200 Sorbic acid , E282 Calcium propionate , E297 Fumaric acid , E330 Citric acid , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341ii Dicalcium phosphate , E517 Ammonium sulphate

As written on the pack

UNBLEACHED ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, SUGAR, WHEAT GLUTEN, YEAST, SUNFLOWER SEEDS, SEED MIX (MILLET, FLAX, SUNFLOWER, CHIA, QUINOA), RECONSTITUTED AVOCADO, AVOCADO OIL, SALT, CALCIUM PROPIONATE, FUMARIC ACID, SORBIC ACID, GRANULATED ONION, GRANULATED GARLIC, AMMONIUM SULFATE, CITRIC ACID, ASCORBIC ACID, MALTODEXTRIN, MODIFIED POTATO STARCH, DICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, VITAMIN D3, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE.

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.

  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down 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.
  • 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 389 sliced breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 308th. 87% of the sliced 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 389 sliced breads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0024126018695, last edited 26 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.