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Is Marks & Spencers Broccoli Cheese Tomato Quiche ultra-processed?

400g Quiches Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Marks & Spencers Broccoli Cheese Tomato Quiche

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:

  • 28 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed quiches

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

Whole Milk, Broccoli 14%, Free Range Egg 13% (with Wheatflour, e170 Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Tomatoes 10%, Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese, Whipping Cream, Palm Oil, Tomato Paste, Rapeseed Oil, Onions, Maize Flour, Cornflour, Modified Maize Starch, Dextrose, e471, Salt, Demerara Sugar, Sugar, Balsamic Vinegar, Mustard, Oregano, Garlic Purée, Black Pepper

Additives: E170 Calcium carbonates , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E170 Calcium carbonates.

As written on the pack

Whole Milk, Broccoli (14%), Pasteurised Free Range Egg (13%), Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, E170 Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin). Tomatoes (10%), Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk) (7%), Whipping Cream (Milk) (6%), Palm Oil, Tomato Paste, Rapeseed Oil, Onions, Maize Flour, Cornflour, Modified Maize Starch, Dextrose, Emulsifier: E471, Salt, Demerara Sugar, Sugar, Balsamic Vinegar, Dried Mustard, Oregano, Garlic Purée, Ground 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.

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.
5 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 43 quiches

From least to most processed, this one ranks 41st. 47% of the quiches 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 43 quiches, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00176378, last edited 25 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.