Is Rowan Hill Bakery Malt Loaf ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 20 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Malt loaf with raisins Ingredients Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Raisins 12%, Malted Barley Flour 11%, Invert Sugar (ultra-processing marker), Malted Wheat Flour 6%, Barley Malt Extract 3%, Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Vegetable Fats (processing marker) (Rapeseed, Palm), Salt (processing marker), Preservative (processing marker) (Calcium Propionate), Yeast
Additives: E282 Calcium propionate
As written on the pack
Malt loaf with raisins Ingredients Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, 12% Raisins, 11% Malted Barley Flour, Invert Sugar, 6% Malted Wheat Flour, 3% Barley Malt Extract, Dextrose, Vegetable Fats (Rapeseed, Palm), Salt, Preservative: Calcium Propionate; Yeast.
What makes it ultra-processed
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.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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.
- Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489851578, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.