Is Sara Lee Artesano Hawaiian Bakery Buns ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 35 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed hamburger buns
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
enriched wheat flour (flour, malted barley flour, reduced iron, niacin, thiamin mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin, folic acid), water, sugar (processing marker), yeast, vegetable oils (processing marker) (soybean, canola), wheat gluten (ultra-processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), potato flakes, and less of each of the following 5% (wheat flour), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), vegetable protein (pea), corn flour, citric acid, reb a (stevia leaf sweetener), maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), dextrose (ultra-processing marker), annatto, turmeric, grain vinegar, cornstarch (processing marker), sesame seeds
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid
As written on the pack
enriched wheat flour [flour, malted barley flour, reduced iron, niacin, thiamin mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin (vitamin b2), folic acid], water, sugar, yeast, vegetable oils (soybean, canola), wheat gluten, sea salt, natural flavors, potato flakes, contains 0.5% or less of each of the following: cultured wheat flour, soy lecithin, vegetable protein (pea), corn flour, citric acid, reb a (stevia leaf sweetener), maltodextrin, dextrose, annatto & turmeric, grain vinegar, cornstarch, sesame seeds. contains wheat, soy, sesame.
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.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
- Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
4 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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 55 hamburger buns
From least to most processed, this one ranks 38th. 96% of the hamburger buns here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0072945766051, last edited 11 April 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.