Is Warburtons 4 Fruit Buns ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 16 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
water, tapioca starch (processing marker), raisins 15%, potato starch (processing marker), vegetable oils (processing marker) (rapeseed vegetable oils, sunflower vegetable oils), maize starch (processing marker), yeast, pea protein, vegetable fibre (ultra-processing marker) (psyllium), egg white powder, sugar (processing marker), stabiliser, e464 (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E464 Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose
As written on the pack
water, tapioca starch, raisins (15%), potato starch, vegetable oils (rapeseed and sunflower), maize starch, yeast, pea protein, vegetable fibre (psyllium), egg white powder, sugar, stabiliser. e464
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.
- E464 Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
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.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010044010052, 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.