Is Marks and Spencer Wood Fired pizza - Vegetable Antipasti ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 22 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Mozzarella Cheese (processing marker), Tomatoes Water Chargrilled Red Peppers 7%, Balsamic Onions 5% (Red Onions, Rapeseed Oil Balsamic Vinegar Sugar), Yellow Peppers 5%, Basil Pesto 4% (Water Basil, Regato Cheese, Olive Oil (processing marker), Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour Salt Concentrated Lemon Juice Garlic Purée Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid)), Rapeseed Oil, Tomato Purée Extra Virgin Olive Oil Black Olives 1.5%, Wheatflour, Salt Yeast Malted Wheatflour, Cornflour Acidity Regulator (Lactic Acid), Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid Basil Coarse Black Pepper Garlic Purée Ground Black Pepper Preservative), e202 (processing marker)
Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E270 Lactic acid
As written on the pack
Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) Mozzarella Cheese (Milk) (19%) Tomatoes Water Chargrilled Red Peppers (7%) Balsamic Onions (5%) (Red Onions. Rapeseed Oil Balsamic Vinegar Sugar) Chargrilled Yellow Peppers (5%) Basil Pesto (4%) (Water Basil. Regato Cheese (Milk) Olive Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour Salt Concentrated Lemon Juice Garlic Purée Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid) Rapeseed Oil. Tomato Purée Extra Virgin Olive Oil Black Olives (1.5%) Wholemeal Wheatflour (contains Gluten). Salt Yeast Malted Wheatflour (contains Gluten), Cornflour Acidity Regulator: Lactic Acid - Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid Basil Coarse Black Pepper Garlic Purée Ground Black Pepper Preservative: E202
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.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Preservation and traditional processing
Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.
- E202 Potassium sorbate 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.
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.
Among 10 vegetable pizza
From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 60% of the vegetable pizza here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29092994, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.