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Is Sainsbury's Salmon Brocoli & Cheddar Quiche ultra-processed?

Quiches Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Salmon Brocoli & Cheddar 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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Single Cream (Cows' Milk), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Poached Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), Pasteurised British Free Range Egg 10%, Broccoli 9%, Cows' Milk, Taw Valley Cheddar Cheese 5% (Cows' Milk), Butter 5% (Cows' Milk), Full Fat Soft Cheese (Cows' Milk), Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Palm Oil, Cornflour, Chives, Salt, Dijon Mustard (Water, Brown Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Wheat Flour, Black Pepper, White Pepper, including cereals containing gluten, Safety (Although every care has been taken to remove all bones), some may remain

As written on the pack

Single Cream (Cows' Milk), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Poached Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) (Fish) (12%), Pasteurised British Free Range Egg (10%), Broccoli (9%), Cows' Milk, Taw Valley Cheddar Cheese (5%) (Cows' Milk), Butter (5%) (Cows' Milk), Full Fat Soft Cheese (Cows' Milk), Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Palm Oil, Cornflour, Chives, Salt, Dijon Mustard (Water, Brown Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Wheat Flour, Black Pepper, White Pepper. Allergy advice: For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. Safety: Although every care has been taken to remove all bones, some may remain.

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.

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 43 quiches

From least to most processed, this one ranks 11th. 47% of the quiches 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 43 quiches, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00279345, last edited 27 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.