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Is M&S Eat Well Granary Loaf ultra-processed?

370 g Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of M&S Eat Well Granary Loaf

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:

  • 24 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Malted Wheatflakes, Sprouted Barley Grains 7%, Barley Grains, Sourdough (Water, Barley Flour, Starter Culture), Salt, Yeast (Yeast, Vitamin D Yeast), Malted Barley Flour, Wheat Gluten, Salt, Vinegar, Palm Oil, Soya Flour, Wheatgerm, Caramelised Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid), Rye Flour

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Malted Wheatflakes (contain Gluten) (12%), Sprouted Barley Grains (7%) (Barley Grains (contain Gluten), Sourdough (Water, Barley Flour (contains Gluten), Starter Culture), Salt), Yeast (Yeast, Vitamin D Yeast), Malted Barley Flour (contains Gluten), Dried Wheat Gluten, Salt, Vinegar, Palm Oil, Soya Flour, Wheatgerm (contains Gluten), Caramelised Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid, Rye Flour (contains Gluten).

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.
2 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00096560, last edited 23 March 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.