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Is Dr. Oetker Pepperoni Italian Calabrese Style Pizza ultra-processed?

540g Pepperoni pizzas Sold in Sweden and Finland

Pack of Dr. Oetker Pepperoni Italian Calabrese Style Pizza

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:

  • 40 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed pepperoni pizzas

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, cheese 18% (gouda, emmental), water, tomato purée 10%, Calabrese salami 8.1% (pork, pork fat, salt, dextrose, spices, flavouring, glucose syrup, stabiliser (sodium nitrite), antioxidant (extracts of rosemary), smoke), tomato concentrate 6.3%, baker's yeast, sunflower, sugar, rapeseed oil, salt, SOY sauce (water, soybeans, salt, WHEAT flour), BARLEY malt extract, emulsifier (mono- and diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids), thickener (guar gum), spices, oregano, acidity regulator (calcium phosphates), garlic

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E341 Calcium phosphates , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E412 Guar gum , E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

WHEAT flour, 18% CHEESE (GOUDA, EMMENTAL), water, 10% tomato purée, 8.1% Calabrese salami (pork, pork fat, salt, dextrose, spices, flavouring, glucose syrup, stabiliser (sodium nitrite), antioxidant (extracts of rosemary), smoke), 6.3% tomato concentrate, baker's yeast, sunflower flour, sugar, rapeseed oil, salt, SOY sauce (water, SOYBEANS, salt, WHEAT flour), BARLEY malt extract, emulsifier (mono - and diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids), thickener (guar gum), spices, oregano, acidity regulator (calcium phosphates), garlic.

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.

  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids 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.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.
  • Glucose syrup 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.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 34 pepperoni pizzas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 33rd. 94% of the pepperoni 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 34 pepperoni pizzas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4001724010753, last edited 16 April 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.