Is Pepperidge Farm Farmhouse Homestyle Oat Bread ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 26 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed breads
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin, folic acid), water, oats, high fructose corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), yeast, soybean oil (processing marker), contains 2% and less of (salt (processing marker)), wheat gluten (ultra-processing marker), butter (processing marker), sodium stearoyl lactylate (ultra-processing marker), citric acid, calcium propionate, sorbic acid, monoglycerides, diglycerides, whey (ultra-processing marker), malted barley flour, soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E200 Sorbic acid , E282 Calcium propionate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate
As written on the pack
unbromated unbleached enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), water, oats, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, soybean oil, contains 2% or less of: salt, wheat gluten , butter ( milk ), sodium stearoyl lactylate, citric acid, calcium propionate, sorbic acid, monoglycerides, diglycerides, whey, malted barley flour, soy lecithin,
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.
- E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
- E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
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.
- 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.
- High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 2,390 breads
From least to most processed, this one ranks 2258th. 71% of the breads here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0014100070337, last edited 27 September 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.