Is St Pierre srpierre ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 22 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed croissants
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
wheat flour, palm fat, water, sugar (processing marker), rapeseed oil, yeast, dextrose (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), emulsifiers (ultra-processing marker), mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (ultra-processing marker), mono- and diacetyl tartaric esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids wheat gluten, pea protein, flavouring (ultra-processing marker), deactivated yeast preservative (calcium propionate), rice flour, glucose syrup (ultra-processing marker), thickener (ultra-processing marker) (cellulose gum (ultra-processing marker)), colour (ultra-processing marker), beta carotene allergy advice (luton see)
Additives: E282 Calcium propionate , E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids
As written on the pack
wheat flour, palm fat, water, sugar, rapeseed oil, yeast, dextrose, salt, emulsifiers (mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids, mono - and diacetyl tartaric esters of mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids wheat gluten, pea protein, flavouring, deactivated yeast preservative (calcium propionate), rice flour, glucose syrup, thickener (cellulose gum), colour (beta carotene allergy advice: luton see
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.
- E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose Carboxymethyl cellulose is a thickener made by chemically modifying cellulose from wood or cotton.
- E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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 44 croissants
From least to most processed, this one ranks 34th. 80% of the croissants here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5027952015680, last edited 26 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.