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Is Tesco 4 ancient grain rolls ultra-processed?

4 pieces Bread rolls Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco 4 ancient grain rolls

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:

  • 35 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed bread rolls

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

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Ancient Grain Topping 5% (Quinoa, Buckwheat, Spelt Flakes (Wheat), Brown Linseed, Chia Seed (Salvia hispanica), Millet), Sunflower Seed, Wheat Bran, Wheat Gluten, Yeast, Brown Linseed, Rye Flour, Oats, Sugar, Whey Powder, Salt, Pumpkin Seed, Rapeseed Oil, Dextrose, Malted Barley Flour, Wheat Fibre, Malted Wheat Flour, Palm Oil, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid)

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Water, Ancient Grain Topping (5%) [Quinoa, Buckwheat, Spelt Flakes (Wheat), Brown Linseed, Chia Seed (Salvia hispanica), Millet], Sunflower Seed, Wheat Bran, Wheat Gluten, Yeast, Brown Linseed, Wholegrain Rye Flour, Oats, Sugar, Whey Powder (Milk), Salt. Pumpkin Seed, Rapeseed Oil, Dextrose, Malted Barley Flour. Wheat Fibre. Malted Wheat Flour, Palm Oil, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid).

What makes it ultra-processed

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.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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 63 bread rolls

From least to most processed, this one ranks 49th. 79% of the bread rolls 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 63 bread rolls, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0284633001201, last edited 23 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.