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Is Sainsbury Taste the Difference Taste The Difference Multiseed Half Bloomer ultra-processed?

400g Breads Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Sainsbury Taste the Difference Taste The Difference Multiseed Half Bloomer

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:

  • 27 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

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, Rye Flour, Sunflower Seeds 5%, Millet Seeds 4.5%, Brown Linseed 4.5%, Pearl Barley 3.5%, Yeast, Invert Sugar Syrup, Oat Flour 1.5%, Malted Wheat Flakes, Salt, Pumpkin Seeds 1%, Rapeseed Oil, Poppy Seed 0.5%, Soya Flour, Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Wheat, Malted Wheat Flour, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid)

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Rye Flour, Sunflower Seeds (5.0%), Millet Seeds (4.5%), Brown Linseed (4.5%), Pearl Barley (3.5%), Yeast, Invert Sugar Syrup, Oat Flour (1.5%), Malted Wheat Flakes, Salt, Pumpkin Seeds (1.0%), Rapeseed Oil, Poppy Seed (0.5%), Soya Flour, Fermented Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Malted Wheat, Malted Wheat Flour, Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid.

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.

  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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 1011th. 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 01547818, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.