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Is Sainsbury's Stonebaked Bbq Chicken Pizza ultra-processed?

300 g Pizzas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Stonebaked Bbq Chicken Pizza

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:

  • 52 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed pizzas

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

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), BBQ Chicken 13% (British Chicken, Tomato Purée, Sugar, Muscovado Sugar, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Spirit Vinegar, Cornflour, Garlic Purée, Smoked Salt, Smoked Paprika, Chilli, Onion, Salt, Clove, Nutmeg), Tomato Purée, Mozzarella Cheese (Cows' Milk), Sweetcorn, Cheddar Cheese (Cows' Milk), Water, Red Pepper, Tomato, Semolina (Wheat), Sugar, Muscovado Sugar, Tomato Juice, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Rapeseed Oil, Yeast, Spirit Vinegar, Malted Wheat Flour, Salt, Cornflour, Garlic Purée, Smoked Salt, Smoked Paprika, Basil, Chilli, Onion, Clove, Nutmeg, Black Pepper

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), BBQ Chicken (13%) (British Chicken, Tomato Purée, Sugar, Muscovado Sugar, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Spirit Vinegar, Cornflour, Garlic Purée, Smoked Salt, Smoked Paprika, Chilli Powder, Onion, Salt, Clove, Nutmeg), Tomato Purée, Mozzarella Cheese (Cows' Milk), Sweetcorn, Cheddar Cheese (Cows' Milk), Water, Red Pepper, Tomato, Semolina (Wheat), Sugar, Muscovado Sugar, Tomato Juice, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Rapeseed Oil, Yeast, Spirit Vinegar, Malted Wheat Flour, Salt, Cornflour, Garlic Purée, Smoked Salt, Smoked Paprika, Basil, Chilli Powder, Onion, Clove, Nutmeg, Black 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.

  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
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 371 pizzas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 98th. 78% of the pizzas 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 371 pizzas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00361637, last edited 21 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.