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Is Morrisons black pepper and sea salt bloomer ultra-processed?

Breads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Morrisons black pepper and sea salt bloomer

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
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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

Fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), Water, Yeast, Rapeseed oil, Wheat gluten, Salt, Soya flour, Sea salt, Palm oil, Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate, mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, Black pepper, Pregelatinized wheat flour, Ascorbic acid, L-cysteine hydrochloride monohydrate, Wheat flour, Dextrose, Sugar, Diphosphates

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E450 Diphosphates , E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate , E921 L-cysteine hydrochloride monohydrate

As written on the pack

Fortified wheat flour ( wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), Water, Yeast, Rapeseed oil, Wheat gluten, Salt, Soya flour, Sea salt, Palm oil, Emulsifiers (Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate, Mono - and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids), Black pepper, Pregelatinized wheat flour, Flour Treatment Agents (Ascorbic acid, L-cysteine hydrochloride monohydrate), Wheat flour, Dextrose, Sugar,stabiliser (Diphosphates).

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.

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.
  • 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

Among 2,390 breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2169th. 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 0225918001059, last edited 8 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.