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Is Sainsbury's Mediterranean Style Vegetable Quiche ultra-processed?

400 g Quiches with vegetables Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Mediterranean Style Vegetable Quiche

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:

  • 38 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed quiches with 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

Cows' Milk, Tomato, Fortified British Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Pasteurised Free Range British Egg, Butternut Squash 4%, Yellow Pepper 4%, Rapeseed Oil, Palm Oil, Cornflour, Courgette 4%, Cherry Tomatoes 3%, Spinach 3%, Medium Mature Cheddar Cheese (Cows' Milk), Mozzarella Cheese (Cows' Milk), Single Cream (Cows' Milk), Onion, Dextrose, Basil, Garlic Puree, Oregano, Dijon Mustard (Water, Black Mustard Seed, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Demerara Sugar, Salt, Black Pepper, White Pepper

As written on the pack

Cows' Milk, Tomato, Fortified British Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Pasteurised Free Range British Egg, Butternut Squash (4%), Yellow Pepper (4%), Rapeseed Oil, Palm Oil, Cornflour, Courgette (4%), Cherry Tomatoes (3%), Spinach (3%), Medium Mature Cheddar Cheese (Cows' Milk), Mozzarella Cheese (Cows' Milk), Single Cream (Cows' Milk), Onion, Dextrose, Basil, Garlic Puree, Oregano, Dijon Mustard (Water, Black Mustard Seed, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Demerara Sugar, Salt, Black Pepper, White Pepper.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.
4 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 quiches with vegetables

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 22% of the quiches with 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 9 quiches with vegetables, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01218565, last edited 1 October 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.