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Is Essential Waitrose Essential Waittose cheese & tomato pizza ultra-processed?

Cheese pizzas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Essential Waitrose Essential Waittose cheese & tomato pizza

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Wheat flour, mozzarella cheese, water, tomato purée 13%, Cheddar cheese, sunflower oil, yeast, extra virgin olive oil, salt, malted wheat flour, deactivated yeast, maize flour, garlic, sugar, basil, oregano, black pepper

As written on the pack

Wheat flour, mozzarella cheese (milk) (17%), water, tomato purée (13%), Cheddar cheese (milk) (6%), sunflower oil, yeast, extra virgin olive oil, salt, malted wheat flour, deactivated yeast, maize flour, garlic powder, sugar, basil, oregano, 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • 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 5th. 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 5000169299098, last edited 1 July 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.