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Is Deluxe Balsamic Onion & Mature cheddar quiche ultra-processed?

420g Quiches Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Deluxe Balsamic Onion & Mature cheddar quiche

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:

  • 31 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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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), Mature Cheddar Cheese 11% (Milk, Potato Starch), Skimmed Milk, Balsamic Onion Chutney 11% (Red Onion, Balsamic Vinegar (Wine Vinegar, Grape Must), Demerara Sugar, Water, Cornflour, Black Pepper), Free Range Egg, Vegetable Oil (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Water, Double Cream, West Country Cheddar Cheese 7%, Onion 2%, Modified Maize Starch, Butter, Dextrose, White Pepper

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), 11% Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk, Anti-Caking Agent: Potato Starch), Skimmed Milk, 11% Balsamic Onion Chutney (Red Onion, Balsamic Vinegar [Wine Vinegar, Grape Must], Demerara Sugar, Water, Cornflour, Ground Black Pepper), Free Range Egg, Vegetable Oil (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Water, Double Cream (Milk), 7% West Country Cheddar Cheese (Milk), 2% Onion, Modified Maize Starch, Butter (Milk), Dextrose, Ground White Pepper.

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.

  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.
6 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 43 quiches

From least to most processed, this one ranks 32nd. 47% of the quiches 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 43 quiches, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20844257, last edited 17 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.