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Is Maxtop Pizza Domana - Pepperoni ultra-processed?

305 g Pepperoni pizzas Sold in Sweden

Pack of Maxtop Pizza Domana - Pepperoni

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:

  • 40 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed pepperoni 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

WHEAT flour, water, white onion, tomato, tomato concentrate, rapeseed oil, cheese (with MILK), pork sausage 2% (pork, beef, salt, animal protein, aromas, spices, black pepper, antioxidant (sodium isoascorbate), glucose, color (carmine), starch, spice extracts, preservative (e250), starter cultures), sugars, carrots, salt, onion, potato starch, yeast, paprika (red, green), wheat gluten, WHEAT starch, spices, flour treatment agents (ascorbic acid)

Additives: E120 Cochineal , E250 Sodium nitrite , E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

WHEAT flour, water, white onion, tomato, tomato concentrate, rapeseed oil, CHEESE (with MILK), pork sausage 2% [pork, beef, salt, animal protein, aromas, spices (black pepper, antioxidant: sodium isoascorbate, glucose, color: carmine, starch, spice extracts, preservative E250, starter cultures], sugars, carrots, salt, onion, potato starch, yeast, paprika (red, green), WHEAT GLUTEN, WHEAT starch, spices, flour treatment agents: ascorbic acid.

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.

  • E120 Cochineal Carmine is a red colour made from cochineal insects.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
7 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.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite 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.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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 34 pepperoni pizzas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 29th. 94% of the pepperoni 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 34 pepperoni pizzas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5901537001551, last edited 2 April 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.