Well, if you're talking about real food versus packaged processed, I'm here to say a big "yes." While the ingredients in a packaged tube of crescent dough also contain flour, sugar, salt and baking powder (instead of yeast), they also contain soybean and palm oil, hydrogenated palm oil, fractionated palm oil, water, mono and diglycerides, TBHQ, Soybean Oil, Vital Wheat Gluten, Dextrose, Salt, Monoglycerides, and Potassium Chloride. My crescent dough recipe contains whole grain flour, butter, honey, yeast, buttermilk, and eggs, resulting in more fiber, protein, and vitamins. Plus, I happen to think they taste a LOT better!