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Is Everyday essentials Cheese & tomato pizza ultra-processed?

314g Cheese pizzas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Everyday essentials 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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

pizza base (wheat flour, water, yeast, rapeseed oil, salt), tomato sauce 22% (water, tomato purée, tomato paste, maize starch, sugar, oregano, black pepper), mozzarella cheese 22%, cheddar cheese 2.5%

As written on the pack

pizza base ( wheat flour, water, yeast, rapeseed oil, salt), tomato sauce 22% (water, tomato purée, tomato paste, maize starch, sugar, oregano, black pepper), mozzarella cheese 22% ( milk ), cheddar cheese 2,5% ( milk ),

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.
  • 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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 4th. 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 4088600264479, last edited 27 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.