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Is Pepperidge Farm Jewish Rye Pumpernickel Bread ultra-processed?

454 g Breads Sold in the United States and France

Pack of Pepperidge Farm Jewish Rye Pumpernickel Bread

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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

made from (enriched wheat flour, flour), niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin, folic acid, water, rye meal, yeast, wheat gluten, contain 2 percent and less of (rye flour), soybean oil, salt, caramel color, cocoa processed with alkali (dutched), caraway, wheat flour, calcium propionate, sorbic acid to retard spoilage, malted barley flour, dextrose, mono- and diglycerides, dehydrated onions, lactic acid, soy lecithin

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E270 Lactic acid , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

made from: unbromated unbleached enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), water, rye meal, yeast, wheat gluten, contain 2 percent or less of: rye flour, soybean oil, salt, caramel color, cocoa processed with alkali (dutched), ground caraway, wheat flour, calcium propionate and sorbic acid to retard spoilage, malted barley flour, dextrose, mono and diglycerides, dehydrated onions, lactic acid, 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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • 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.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.

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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,390 breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2176th. 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 0014100071198, last edited 14 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.