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Is The Bakery at Asda So Soft 4 Muffins ultra-processed?

4unknown Special breads Sold in the United Kingdom and Germany

Pack of The Bakery at Asda So Soft 4 Muffins

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed special breads

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

fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin (b3), thiamin (b1)), water, yeast, wheat semolina, wheat protein, sugar, salt, soya flour, spirit vinegar, vegetable oils and fat (palm oil, palm fat, rapeseed oil), potassium sorbate, ascorbic acid

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

fortified wheat flour [wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin (b3), thiamin (b1)], water, yeast, wheat semolina, wheat protein, sugar, salt, soya flour, spirit vinegar, vegetable oils and fat [palm oil, palm fat, rapeseed oil], preservative (potassium sorbate), flour treatment agent (ascorbic acid).

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 364 special breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 78th. 76% of the special breads 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 364 special breads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5054781728436, last edited 27 August 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.