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Is Specially Selected Naan Garlic Flatbread ultra-processed?

Garlic Naans Sold in the United States

Pack of Specially Selected Naan Garlic Flatbread

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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed naans

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

enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduc iron, ascorbic acid added as a dough conditioner, thiami mononitrate, riboflavin, enzyme, folic acid), buttermilk (nonf milk, buttermilk, bacterial culture), water, soybean o roasted garlic, wheat flour, eggs, sugar, baki powder (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, cornstarc monocalcium phosphate), sea salt, ghee, clarified butter wheat gluten, cilantro, dextrose, dextrin, carrot fiber

Additives: E101 Riboflavin , E101i Riboflavin , E1400 Dextrin , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduc iron, ascorbic acid added as a dough conditioner, thiami mononitrate, riboflavin, enzyme, folic acid), buttermilk (nonf milk, dry buttermilk, bacterial culture), water, soybean o roasted garlic, cultured wheat flour, eggs, sugar, baki powder (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, cornstarc monocalcium phosphate), sea salt, ghee (clarified butter wheat gluten, cilantro, dextrose, dextrin, carrot fiber, yeas contains: wheat, milk and eggs, may contain: soy and 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.

  • E101 Riboflavin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.

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.
2 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 garlic Naans

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 89% of the garlic Naans 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 9 garlic Naans, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4099100072525, last edited 20 February 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.