Is Rowan Hill Bakery Sliced White Seeded ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- Gluten
- E322 Lecithins
- E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids
- 26 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score B
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin, Water, Sunflower Seeds, Brown Linseed, Brown Linseed, Sunflower Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Poppy Seeds, Millet Seeds, Golden Linseed, Yeast, Salt (processing marker), Spirit Vinegar, Soya Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Wheat Gluten (ultra-processing marker), Calcium Propionate, Palm Oil, mono- and Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids (ultra-processing marker), Rapeseed Lecithins (ultra-processing marker), Rapeseed Oil, Ascorbic Acid
Additives: E282 Calcium propionate , E300 Ascorbic acid , E322 Lecithins , E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids
As written on the pack
Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin, Water, Sunflower Seeds, Brown Linseed, Toasted Brown Linseed, Toasted Sunflower Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Poppy Seeds, Millet Seeds, Golden Linseed, Yeast, Salt, Spirit Vinegar, Soya Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Wheat Gluten, Calcium Propionate, Palm Oil, Mono - and Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of Mono - and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Rapeseed Lecithins, Rapeseed Oil, Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid
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.
- E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids 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.
- Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
1 ingredient 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.
Among 2,388 breads
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1679th. 71% of the breads here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489239000, last edited 28 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 B (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.