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Is Goodfella's Gluten Free Margherita Pizza ultra-processed?

328 g Vegetarian pizzas Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Goodfella's Gluten Free Margherita 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:

  • 23 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed vegetarian 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

pizza base blend (rice flour, tapioca starch, maize starch, psyl lium husk powder, sugar, rice flour, salt, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, maize flour, rice starch), water, semi hard ripened cheese, tomatoes, rapeseed oil, yeast, maize starch, garlic puree, salt, basil, oregano, sugar, black pepper

Additives: E464 Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose

As written on the pack

pizza base blend (rice flour, tapioca starch, maize starch, psyl lium husk powder, sugar, wholegrain rice flour, salt, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, maize flour, rice starch), water, semi hard ripened cheese (milk) (29%), tomatoes, rapeseed oil, yeast, maize starch, garlic puree, salt, basil, oregano, sugar, black 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.

  • E464 Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose 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.
4 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.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 94 vegetarian pizzas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 40th. 63% of the vegetarian 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 94 vegetarian pizzas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5391527070856, 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.