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Is Tesco Mini Flatbreads ultra-processed?

295g Flatbreads Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Tesco Mini Flatbreads

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:

  • 27 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed flatbreads

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, Red Onion, Red Leicester Cheese (with Colour (Annatto Norbixin)), Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese, Durum Wheat Semolina, Extra Virgin Typica Olive Oil, Flat Leaf Parsley, Salt, Wheat Fibre, White Wine Vinegar, Garlic, Malted Wheat Flour, Lemon Juice, Grape Must, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Yeast, Hibiscus, Black Pepper, Rosehip

Additives: E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Water, Red Onion, Red Leicester Cheese (with Colour: Annatto Norbixin) (Milk) (6%), Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk) (6%), Durum Wheat Semolina, Extra Virgin Typica Olive Oil, Flat Leaf Parsley, Salt, Wheat Fibre, White Wine Vinegar, Garlic, Malted Wheat Flour, Lemon Juice, Grape Must Concentrate, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Yeast, Hibiscus Extract, Black Pepper, Rosehip Extract.

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.

  • E160b Annatto 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.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 345 flatbreads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 172nd. 75% of the flatbreads 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 345 flatbreads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5054402369673, last edited 24 July 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.