Is Soreen Malt loaf ultra-processed?

390g Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Invert sugar
E150c Ammonia caramel

24 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin (B3), Thiamin (B1)), e150c, Maize Starch (processing marker), Malted Barley Flour 5%, Barley Malt Extract 4%, Vegetable Fats Water, Raisins 15%, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Rapeseed, Palm), Rice Starch (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Yeast, Preservative (processing marker) (Calcium Propionate)

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E282 Calcium propionate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin (B3), Thiamin (B1)), E150c), Maize Starch, Malted Barley Flour (5%), Barley Malt Extract (4%), Vegetable Fats Water, Raisins (15%), Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup (Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Colour. (Rapeseed, Palm), Rice Starch, Salt, Yeast, Preservative: Calcium Propionate.

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.

E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.

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.

Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5088722227061, last edited 27 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.