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Is Red Baron Classic Crust Supreme Pizza ultra-processed?

664 g Pizzas Sold in the United States and Mexico

Pack of Red Baron Classic Crust Supreme 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:

  • 76 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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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

flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, low moisture part skim mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part skim milk, salt, enzymes), cooked pizza topping (sausage (pork, chicken, spices, water, salt, sugar, garlic), water, textured vegetable protein (soy flour, salt)), green, red peppers, tomato paste, pepperoni made with pork, chicken, beef (pork, chicken, beef, salt, contains 2% and less of (water), dextrose, spices, smoke flavoring, lactic acid starter culture, sodium ascorbate, flavoring, garlic, sodium nitrite, bha, bht, citric acid, contains one and more of (paprika), oleoresin of paprika), onion, contains 2% and less of (yeast), palm oil, sugar, vegetable oil (soybean, canola oil), salt, modified food starch, spice, maltodextrin, dried garlic, hydrolyzed soy, corn protein, paprika, dried onion, wheat starch, l-cysteine hydrochloride, ammonium sulfate, soy lecithin, natural flavor, enzymes, ascorbic acid

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E250 Sodium nitrite , E320 Butylated hydroxyanisole (bha) , E321 Butylated hydroxytoluene , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E517 Ammonium sulphate

As written on the pack

Enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, low moisture part skim mozzarella cheese (cultured pasteurized part skim milk, salt, enzymes), cooked pizza topping (sausage [pork, mechanically separated chicken, spices, water, salt, sugar, garlic powder], water, textured vegetable protein [soy flour, salt]), green and red peppers, tomato paste, pepperoni made with pork, chicken and beef (pork, mechanically separated chicken, beef, salt, contains 2% or less of: water, dextrose, spices, smoke flavoring, lactic acid starter culture, sodium ascorbate, flavoring, garlic powder, sodium nitrite, bha, bht, citric acid, contains one or more of: paprika, oleoresin of paprika), onion, contains 2% or less of: yeast, palm oil, sugar, vegetable oil (soybean and/or canola oil), salt, modified food starch, spice, maltodextrin, dried garlic, hydrolyzed soy and corn protein, paprika, dried onion, wheat starch, l-cysteine hydrochloride, ammonium sulfate, soy lecithin, natural flavor, enzymes (contains wheat), 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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
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.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 371 pizzas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 354th. 78% of the 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 371 pizzas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0072180634719, last edited 2 June 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.