Is St Pierre Brioche Burger 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:
- 16 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed hamburger buns
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat flour, eggs, sugar (processing marker), canola oil, invert sugar (ultra-processing marker), skim milk, bakers yeast, butterfat, wheat gluten (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), natural flavoring (ultra-processing marker), mono- and diglycerides (ultra-processing marker), milk proteins (ultra-processing marker), yeast, malted rye flour, beta-carotene color
Additives: E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids
As written on the pack
Wheat flour, eggs, sugar, canola oil, invert sugar, skim milk, bakers yeast, butterfat, wheat gluten, salt, natural flavoring, mono - and diglycerides, milk proteins, dried yeast, malted rye flour, beta-carotene color.
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.
- E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
- 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.
- Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
- Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
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 55 hamburger buns
From least to most processed, this one ranks 24th. 96% of the hamburger buns here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0811669020243, last edited 21 May 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.