Is Peter's Yard Charcoal & Rye Sourdough Crispbread ultra-processed?

Breads Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Butter
Honey
Salt

16 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed breads

Crafted Signature Sourdough Bread Marks & Spencer 7 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Slow Fermented White Sourdough Toastie Loaf Co-op Irresistible 9 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Rye sourdough flatbread - M&S Food Marks & Spencer 7 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Spelt Sourdough Bread Waitrose 8 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1

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

Milk, rye flour 35%, wheat flour (wheat flour, Calcium, Iron, Thiamin, Niacin), sourdough 11% (rye flour, water), wheat flour, honey (processing marker), butter (processing marker), charcoal 2.3%, sea salt (processing marker)

As written on the pack

Milk, rye flour 35%, wheat flour (wheat flour, Calcium, Iron, Thiamin, Niacin), sourdough 11% (rye flour, water), wholemeal wheat flour, honey, butter (milk), charcoal 2.3%, sea salt.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,390 breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 393rd. 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 5060198820922, 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.
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.