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Is Sainsbury's Cheddar and bacon quiche ultra-processed?

400g Lorraine quiche Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Cheddar and bacon quiche

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 40 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Single Cream (Cows' Milk), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Cows' Milk, Pasteurised British Free Range Egg 10%, Mature Cheddar Cheese 8% (Cows' Milk), Maple Cured Smoked British Bacon 7% (British Pork Belly, Salt, Brown Sugar, Maple Syrup, Sodium Nitrite), Oak Smoked British Bacon Rasher 6% (British Pork Belly, Salt, Brown Sugar, Maple Syrup, Sodium Nitrite), Butter 4.5% (Cows' Milk), Taw Valley Cheddar Cheese 4% (Cows' Milk), Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Dijon Mustard (Water, Brown Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Salt, Wheat Flour, Black Pepper, White Pepper

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite

As written on the pack

Single Cream (Cows' Milk), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Cows' Milk, Pasteurised British Free Range Egg (10%), Mature Cheddar Cheese (8%) (Cows' Milk), Maple Cured Smoked British Bacon (7%) (British Pork Belly, Salt, Brown Sugar, Maple Syrup, Preservative: Sodium Nitrite), Oak Smoked British Bacon Rasher (6%) (British Pork Belly, Salt, Brown Sugar, Maple Syrup, Preservative: Sodium Nitrite), Butter (4.5%) (Cows' Milk), Taw Valley Cheddar Cheese (4%) (Cows' Milk), Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Dijon Mustard (Water, Brown Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Salt, Wheat Flour, Black Pepper, White Pepper.

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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Maple syrup An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • 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.

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 12 lorraine quiche

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 42% of the lorraine quiche 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 12 lorraine quiche, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00129503, last edited 12 August 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.