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Is Sainsburys Stonebaked three Cheese pizza ultra-processed?

1 x 293g Cheese pizzas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsburys Stonebaked three Cheese 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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed cheese 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), Mozzarella Cheese 14% (Cows' Milk), Tomato Purée, Tomatoes, British Red Leicester Cheese 9% (Cows' Milk, Colour (Annatto Norbixin)), Cheddar Cheese 9% (Cows' Milk), Water, Semolina (Wheat), Rapeseed Oil, Yeast, Malted Wheat Flour, Salt, Sugar, Basil, Wheat Gluten, Black Pepper, including cereals containing gluten, Safety (This product contains raw ingredients which must be cooked and baked before eating)

Additives: E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Mozzarella Cheese (14%) (Cows' Milk), Tomato Purée, Tomatoes, British Red Leicester Cheese (9%) (Cows' Milk) (Colour: Annatto Norbixin), Cheddar Cheese (9%) (Cows' Milk), Water, Semolina (Wheat), Rapeseed Oil, Yeast, Malted Wheat Flour, Salt, Sugar, Basil, Wheat Gluten, Black Pepper. Allergy advice: For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. Safety: This product contains raw ingredients which must be cooked or baked before eating.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.

  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
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 39 cheese pizzas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 28th. 69% of the cheese 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 39 cheese pizzas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00471190, 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.