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Is Marks & Spencer Brioche buns made with sourdough ultra-processed?

Breads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Marks & Spencer Brioche buns made with sourdough

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 10 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed 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

Wheatflour, Clotted Cream, Sugar, Whole Milk Wheat Fibre Yeast (Yeast, Vitamin D Yeast), Sea Salt Wheatflakes, Salt, Egg 18%, French Butter

As written on the pack

Wheatflour* (Milk) (11%) Clotted Cream (Milk) (8%) · Sugar. Whole Milk Wheat Fibre Yeast (Yeast. Vitamin D Yeast) Sea Salt Wheatflakes · Salt. Pasteurised Egg (18%) French Butter .

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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

Among 2,390 breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 270th. 71% of the 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 2,390 breads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29249510, last edited 9 July 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.