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Is Pret A Manger Ham & Grevé Baguette ultra-processed?

Ham sandwiches Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Pret A Manger Ham & Grevé Baguette

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:

  • 43 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed ham sandwiches

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

White Baguette (Wheat Flour (Wheat, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Yeast, Salt, Wheat Gluten (Wheat), Deactivated Yeast, flour treatment agent (Ascorbic Acid)), Ham 22% (Pork, Salt, Sugar, antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), preservatives (Sodium Nitrite, Potassium Nitrate)), Grevé Cheese, Mustard Mayonnaise (Rapeseed Oil, Water, Free Range Egg Yolk, Mustard, Spirit Vinegar, Cornflour, Sugar, Salt, colours (Curcumin, Plain Caramel)), Salad Vegetable Mix in varying proportions (Apollo Lettuce, Spinach, Red Chard, Red Salanova Lettuce, Baby Red Leaf Lettuce)

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E150a Plain caramel , E250 Sodium nitrite , E252 Potassium nitrate , E300 Ascorbic acid , E301 Sodium ascorbate

As written on the pack

White Baguette (Wheat Flour (Wheat) (Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Yeast, Salt, Wheat Gluten (Wheat), Deactivated Yeast, flour treatment agent (Ascorbic Acid)), Cured Ham (22%) (Pork, Salt, Sugar, antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), preservatives (Sodium Nitrite, Potassium Nitrate)), Grevé Cheese (Milk) (16%), Mustard Mayonnaise (Rapeseed Oil, Water, Free Range Egg Yolk (Egg), Mustard Flour (Mustard), Spirit Vinegar, Cornflour, Sugar, Salt, colours (Curcumin, Plain Caramel)), Salad Vegetable Mix in varying proportions (Apollo Lettuce, Spinach, Red Chard, Red Salanova Lettuce, Baby Red Leaf Lettuce)

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.
6 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.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • E252 Potassium nitrate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sandwiches Products in the category "Sandwiches" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 12 ham sandwiches

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 83% of the ham sandwiches 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 12 ham sandwiches, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059977000228, last edited 25 May 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.