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Is New York Bakery Cookies & Cream Bagel ultra-processed?

Bagel breads Sold in the United Kingdom

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:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 5 additives

Less processed bagel 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

WHEAT Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin, Water), Black Cocoa Cookie 5% (WHEAT Flour, Sugar, Vegetable Oil (Coconut Vegetable Oil), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), Salt, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Hydroxide)), Sugar, Yeast, Maize, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Spirit Vinegar, Preservative (Calcium Propionate), Malted BARLEY Flour, Dextrose, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid)

Additives: E282 Calcium propionate , E300 Ascorbic acid , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E524 Sodium hydroxide

As written on the pack

WHEAT Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin. Thiamin): Water, Black Cocoa Cookie (5%) (WHEAT Flour, Sugar, Vegetable Oil (Coconut), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate), Salt, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Hydroxide)), Sugar, Yeast, Maize, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Spirit Vinegar, Preservative (Calcium Propionate). Malted BARLEY Flour. Cultured Dextrose, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid).

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
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.

  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 91 bagel breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 64th. 79% of the bagel 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 91 bagel breads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5018297011499, 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.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.