Is Village Bakery Toaster Crumpets ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 14 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), water, yeast, raising agents (diphosphates (ultra-processing marker)), potassium carbonate, salt (processing marker), preservative (processing marker) (potassium sorbate (processing marker))
Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E450 Diphosphates , E501 Potassium carbonates , E501i Potassium carbonate
As written on the pack
wheat flour ( wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), water, yeast, raising agents: diphosphates, potassium carbonate, salt, preservative: potassium sorbate
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.
- E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600461304, last edited 27 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.