Is Sainsburys Cheese & Garlic Stuffed Mushrooms ultra-processed?

200g Prepared 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
Vegetable oil
Cheese

27 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed prepared 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

Mushroom 70%, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Full Fat Soft Cheese (processing marker) 7% (Cows' Milk, Cream (Cows' Milk), Sea Salt (processing marker)), Water, Concentrated Butter (Cows' Milk), Red Onion, Garlic Purée, Parsley, Salt (processing marker), Yeast, Olive Oil (processing marker), Cornflour, Cracked Black Pepper, White Pepper, Wheat Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Palm fat

As written on the pack

Mushroom (70%), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Full Fat Soft Cheese (7%) (Skimmed Cows' Milk, Cream (Cows' Milk), Sea Salt), Water, Concentrated Butter (Cows' Milk), Red Onion, Garlic Purée, Parsley, Salt, Yeast, Olive Oil, Cornflour, Cracked Black Pepper, White Pepper, Wheat Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Palm fat

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.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 273 prepared vegetables

From least to most processed, this one ranks 89th. 58% of the prepared 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 273 prepared vegetables, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00307147, last edited 3 May 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.