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Is The Fresh Market French Butter Croissants 4 ct ultra-processed?

0lb 12oz (340g) Butter croissants Sold in the United States

Pack of The Fresh Market French Butter Croissants 4 ct

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:

  • 28 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed sweet snacks

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

enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), butter, water, milk, sugar, eggs, yeast, salt, ascorbic acid, enzymes, contains (wehat), milk, and EGGS, produced in an environment that also uses peanuts, tree nuts, SOY, wheat, milk, eggs, and SESAME

As written on the pack

UNBLEACHED ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), BUTTER, WATER, FRESH MILK, SUGAR, EGGS, YEAST, SALT, ASCORBIC ACID, ENZYMES. CONTAINS: WEHAT, MILK, AND EGGS. PRODUCED IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT ALSO USES PEANUTS, TREE NUTS, SOY, WHEAT, MILK, EGGS, AND SESAME.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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 20 butter croissants

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1st. 65% of the butter croissants 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 20 butter croissants, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0233009005992, last edited 2 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.