Is Sainsbury's Cauliflower Cheese ultra-processed?

1 x 680g Frozen vegetables Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Starch
Cheese
Milk powder

10 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score B

Less processed frozen vegetables

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

Cauliflower 60%, Water, Mature Cheddar Cheese (processing marker) 10% (Cows' Milk), Whipping Cream (Cows' Milk), Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder (processing marker), Tapioca Starch (processing marker), Rice Starch (processing marker), Salt (processing marker)

As written on the pack

Cauliflower (60%), Water, Mature Cheddar Cheese (10%) (Cows' Milk), Whipping Cream (Cows' Milk), Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder, Tapioca Starch, Rice Starch, Salt.

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.
Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 115 frozen vegetables

From least to most processed, this one ranks 82nd. 20% of the frozen vegetables 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 115 frozen vegetables, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01689532, last edited 5 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 B (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.