Is Sainsbury's Sliced Brioche 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:
- 19 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed brioches
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat Flour, Egg, Sugar (processing marker), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Emulsifiers (ultra-processing marker) (mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids (ultra-processing marker)), Sodium Stearoyl-2-Lactylate (ultra-processing marker), Flavourings (ultra-processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Yeast, Wheat Gluten (ultra-processing marker), Thickener (ultra-processing marker) (Tara Gum (ultra-processing marker)), Deactivated Yeast, Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Carotenes (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E160a Carotene , E300 Ascorbic acid , E417 Tara gum , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate
As written on the pack
Wheat Flour, Pasteurised Egg, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Emulsifiers: Mono - and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Sodium Stearoyl-2-Lactylate; Flavourings, Salt, Yeast, Wheat Gluten, Thickener: Tara Gum; Deactivated Yeast, Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid; Colour: Carotenes.
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.
- E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
- E417 Tara gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
- E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
- E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate 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.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
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- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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.
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.
Among 61 brioches
From least to most processed, this one ranks 51st. 97% of the brioches here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00435291, last edited 22 July 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.