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Is Tip Top English Muffins Original ultra-processed?

400 g English muffins Sold in Australia

Pack of Tip Top English Muffins Original

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed english muffins

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, water, baker's yeast wheat gluten, maize, vinagre, canola oil, lodised salt, soy flour, fibre (oats, wheat), rising agent, acidity regulators, vegetable emulsifiers, preservatives, sugar, vitamins, thiamin, folic acid, processing aid (wheat), May be présent (other cereals, barley), rye

Additives: E200 Sorbic acid , E202 Potassium sorbate , E262 Sodium acetates , E263 Calcium acetate , E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate, E202 Potassium sorbate.

As written on the pack

wheat flour, water, baker's yeast wheat gluten,, maize, vinagre, canola oil, lodised salt, soy flour, fibre (oats and/or wheat) rising agent(341), acidity regulators (263, 262), vegetable emulsifiers (481, 472e), preservatives (202, 200), sugar, vitamins (thiamin, folic acid), processing aid (wheat). contains: gluten, wheat, soy. May be présent: other cereals (barley, rye)

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.

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.
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.

  • 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.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 31 english muffins

From least to most processed, this one ranks 26th. 90% of the english muffins 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 31 english muffins, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9339423003253, last edited 17 September 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.