Is Sainsbury's Chicken and pesto thin and crusty pizza ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 35 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score B
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Mozzarella Cheese (processing marker) (Cows' Milk), Tomato Purée, British Chicken Breast 11%, Tomato, Water, Basil Pesto 2% (Vegetable Oil (processing marker) (Sunflower Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Basil, Medium Fat Hard Cheese (processing marker) (Cows' Milk)), Vegetable Oil (processing marker) (Sunflower Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Durum Wheat Semolina, Salt (processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), Garlic Purée, Basil, Yeast, Flat Leaf Parsley, Butter (processing marker) (Cows' Milk), Potato Starch (processing marker), Demerara Sugar (processing marker), Black Pepper, Oregano
As written on the pack
Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Mozzarella Cheese (Cows' Milk), Tomato Purée, British Chicken Breast (11%), Tomato, Water, Basil Pesto (2%) (Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Basil, Medium Fat Hard Cheese (Cows' Milk)), Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Durum Wheat Semolina, Salt, Sugar, Garlic Purée, Basil, Yeast, Flat Leaf Parsley, Butter (Cows' Milk), Potato Starch, Demerara Sugar, Black Pepper, Oregano.
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.
- 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.
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.
Among 371 pizzas
From least to most processed, this one ranks 52nd. 78% of the pizzas here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00432238, 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.