Is Little Northern Bakehouse Seeds & Grains Gluten Free Bread ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- E460 Cellulose
- Dextrose
- Glucose
- Vegetable fiber
- Modified starch
- E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose
- 27 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed gluten-free breads
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Water, Gluten-free flour blend (modified tapioca starch (ultra-processing marker), potato starch (processing marker), corn starch (processing marker), brown rice flour), Seed, grain mix (sunflower seeds, millet, flax seeds, chia seeds, pumpkin seeds), Sugars (processing marker) (dextrose (ultra-processing marker), cane sugar), Sunflower oil (processing marker), Psyllium husk (ultra-processing marker), Yeast, Pea hull fibre, cellulose (ultra-processing marker), Vinegar, Salt (processing marker), Rice bran, Cellulose gum (ultra-processing marker), cane sugar (processing marker), Enzymes
Additives: E460 Cellulose , E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose
As written on the pack
Water, Gluten-free flour blend (modified tapioca starch, potato starch, corn starch, brown rice flour), Seed and grain mix (sunflower seeds, whole millet, flax seeds, chia seeds, pumpkin seeds), Sugars (dextrose, cane sugar), Sunflower oil, Psyllium husk, Yeast, Pea hull fibre, Modified cellulose, Vinegar, Salt, Rice bran, Cellulose gum, Cultured cane sugar, Enzymes.
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.
- E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
- E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose Carboxymethyl cellulose is a thickener made by chemically modifying cellulose from wood or cotton.
- 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.
- Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.
Among 55 gluten-free breads
From least to most processed, this one ranks 44th. 95% of the gluten-free breads here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0671521400206, last edited 1 June 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.