Is little NORTHERN BAKEHOUSE White Wide Slice Gluten Free 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
- 20 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed breads
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
water, gluten-free flour blend (modified tapioca starch (ultra-processing marker), corn starch (processing marker), potato starch (processing marker), brown rice flour), sugars (processing marker) (dextrose (ultra-processing marker), cane sugar), sunflower oil (processing marker), psyllium husk (ultra-processing marker), yeast, cellulose (ultra-processing marker), pea fibre (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), rice bran, cane sugar (processing marker), cellulose gum (ultra-processing marker), vinegar, ć *trader used
Additives: E460 Cellulose , E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose
As written on the pack
water, gluten-free flour blend (modified tapioca starch, corn starch, potato starch, brown rice flour), sugars (dextrose, cane sugar), sunflower oil, psyllium husk, yeast, modified cellulose, pea fibre, salt, rice bran, cultured cane sugar, cellulose gum, vinegar, ć *trader used
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 2,390 breads
From least to most processed, this one ranks 2237th. 71% of the breads here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0671521400404, last edited 13 August 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.