Is M&S Thick Cut Tiger Bloomer ultra-processed?

800 g Bread white from wheat flour of the highest grade GOST 26987-86 Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Vegetable fiber

13 ingredients
4 additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed bread white from wheat flour of the highest grade GOST 26987-86

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

water yeast (yeast vitamin d yeast), rapeseed oil, salt rye flour, wheatflour, wheat fibre (ultra-processing marker), rice flour dextrose flour treatment agent (ascorbic acid), e920, malted barley flour, raising agent (e500), e503

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E500 Sodium carbonates , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E920 L-cysteine

As written on the pack

wheatflour contains gluten (with wheatflour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin) - water yeast (yeast vitamin d yeast) rapeseed oil - salt rye flour (contains gluten) fermented wheatflour (contains gluten) wheat fibre (contains gluten) rice flour dextrose flour treatment agent: ascorbic acid, e920 - malted barley flour (contains gluten) raising agent: e500, e503

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.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 22 bread white from wheat flour of the highest grade GOST 26987-86

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 68% of the bread white from wheat flour of the highest grade GOST 26987-86 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 22 bread white from wheat flour of the highest grade GOST 26987-86, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29143511, last edited 27 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 C (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.