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Is Waitrose Parmesan & garlic rustic wheel ultra-processed?

295g Garlic breads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Parmesan & garlic rustic wheel

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed appetizers

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, thiamin), water, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, unsalted butter, durum wheat semolina, garlic 1%, salt, chopped flat leaf parsley, malted wheat flour, yeast, skimmed milk powder, lemon juice from concentrate ALLERGY ADVICE

As written on the pack

Fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), water, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese (milk) (6%), unsalted butter (milk), durum wheat semolina, chopped garlic (1%), salt, chopped flat leaf parsley, malted wheat flour, yeast, skimmed milk powder, lemon juice from concentrate ALLERGY ADVICE:

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

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.

Category rules

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

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 28 garlic breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 75% of the garlic 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 28 garlic breads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169137031, 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.