Is New York Bakery High Fibre Multiseed & Grains Sliced Bagels ultra-processed?

Special breads 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:

Gluten
E170 Calcium carbonates

25 ingredients
4 additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed special breads

White Mini Pitta Bread 9 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 1
New York Bakery Co The Original Plain Bagels New York Bakery Co 17 ingredients · 2 additives NOVA group 3
Sourdough bagels Fitzgeralds Sourdough Bagels 26 ingredients · 3 additives NOVA group 3
soft wholemeal pittas Village Bakery 7 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 3

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, Water, Yeast, Sugar (processing marker), Mixed Seeds 2% (Brown Linseed, Millet Seed, Poppy Seed), Wheat Gluten (ultra-processing marker), Barley Flakes 1%, Rapeseed Oil, Salt (processing marker), Spirit Vinegar, Maize, Preservative (processing marker) (Calcium Propionate), Malted Barley Flour, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate (ultra-processing marker), Iron, Niacin, Thiamin)

Additives: E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E282 Calcium propionate , E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

Wholemeal Wheat Flour, Water, Yeast, Sugar, Mixed Seeds (2%) [Brown Linseed, Millet Seed, Poppy Seed], Wheat Gluten, Barley Flakes (1%), Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Spirit Vinegar, Maize, Preservative (Calcium Propionate), Malted Barley Flour, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin).

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.

E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.

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.

3 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 364 special breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 215th. 76% of the special 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 364 special breads, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5018297012212, last edited 3 June 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.