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Is Sainsbury's Giraffe Baguette ultra-processed?

400g Breads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Giraffe Baguette

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 32 ingredients
  • 2 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, Rice Flour, Salt, Yeast, Palm Stearin, Sugar, Flour Treatment Agents (L-Cysteine), Ascorbic Acid, please see ingredients in bold, Products are not suitable for customers with an allergy to cereals containing gluten (Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, Spelt, Kamult), Egg, Peanut, Soya, Milk, Nuts, Celery, Mustard, Sesame, Sulphites

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E920 L-cysteine

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Rice Flour, Salt, Yeast, Palm Stearin, Sugar, Flour Treatment Agents: L-Cysteine, Ascorbic Acid. Allergy Advice: Including cereals containing gluten, please see ingredients in bold. Products are not suitable for customers with an allergy to cereals containing gluten (Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, Spelt. Kamult), Egg, Peanut, Soya, Milk, Nuts, Celery, Mustard, Sesame or Sulphites Suitable for Vegetarians

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,388 breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 661st. 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 01120967, last edited 5 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.