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Is Rowan Hill Bakery Soft Medium White ultra-processed?

Breads Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Rowan Hill Bakery Soft Medium White

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 4 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

fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), water, yeast, rapeseed oil, salt, soya flour, spirit vinegar, mono- and dactyl tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, calcium propionate, palm oil, flour treatment agent, ascorbic acid

Additives: E282 Calcium propionate , E300 Ascorbic acid , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E472d Tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E472d Tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids.

As written on the pack

fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), water, yeast, rapeseed oil, salt, soya flour, spirit vinegar, emulsifiers: mono - and dactyl tartaric acid esters of mono and diglycerides of fatty acids, mono and diglycerides of fatty acids, preservative: calcium propionate, palm 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.

  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • E472d Tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,388 breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1420th. 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 2,388 breads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20675615, last edited 3 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.