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Is Wholemeal & Rye Bagel Thins ultra-processed?

Bagel breads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Wholemeal & Rye Bagel Thins

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed bagel breads

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, RYE Sour Douch, RYE Grains 4%, Sugar, WHEAT Gluten, WHEAT Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Yeast, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Stabiliser (Cellulose Gum), WHEAT Flour, Pea Protein, WHEAT Flour, Flour Improver (Ascorbic Acid), Citric Acid, Dextrose, Maltodextrins, Starch

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose

As written on the pack

Wholemeal WHEAT Flour. Water, RYE Sour Douch, Sprouted RYE Grains (4%), Sugar. WHEAT Gluten. WHEAT Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin). Yeast. Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Stabiliser: Cellulose Gum: Fermented WHEAT Flour. Pea Protein. WHEAT Flour, Flour Improver: Ascorbic Acid, Citric Acid, Dextrose, Maltodextrins. Starch.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 91 bagel breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 70th. 79% of the bagel 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 91 bagel breads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5018297010782, 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.