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Is Amy's Pizza Cheese ultra-processed?

369g Cheese pizzas Sold in the United States

Pack of Amy's Pizza Cheese

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

wheat flour, filtered water, part-skim mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, culture, salt, enzymes), tomato purée, extra virgin olive oil, honey, sea salt, red onions, expeller pressed high oleic oil (safflower oil, sunflower oil), yeast, spices, garlic, black pepper

As written on the pack

organic unbleached wheat flour, filtered water, part-skim mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, culture, salt, enzymes), organic tomato purée, organic extra virgin olive oil, organic honey, sea salt, organic red onions, expeller pressed high oleic safflower and/or sunflower oil, yeast, spices, organic garlic, black pepper

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.

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

Category rules

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

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 39 cheese pizzas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 69% of the cheese pizzas 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 39 cheese pizzas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0042272001019, last edited 9 May 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.