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Is Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Prosciutto Cotto Ham, Mushroom & Mascarpone Wood-Fired Pizza ultra-processed?

480 g Pizza with ham and cheese Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Prosciutto Cotto Ham, Mushroom & Mascarpone Wood-Fired 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:

  • 39 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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, Niacin, Wheat Flour, Iron, Thiamin, Calcium Carbonate, Tomatoes, Mozzarella Cheese, Cows' Milk, Water, Prosciutto Cotto Ham, Flavouring, Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Preservative (Sodium Nitrite), Salt, Italian Pork, Dextrose, Sugar, British Mascarpone Cheese, Cows' Milk, Cows' Milk Proteins, Tomato Purée, Semolina (Wheat), Rapeseed Oil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Salt, Basil, Yeast, Garlic Purée, Parsley, Wheat Flour, Wheat Starch, Thyme, Black Pepper, Malted Wheat Flour, Wheat Gluten

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E301 Sodium ascorbate

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour, Niacin, Wheat Flour, Iron, Thiamin, Calcium Carbonate, Tomatoes, Mozzarella Cheese, Cows' Milk, Water, Prosciutto Cotto Ham, Flavouring, Antioxidant: Sodium Ascorbate, Preservative: Sodium Nitrite, Salt, Italian Pork, Dextrose, Sugar, British Mascarpone Cheese, Cows' Milk, Cows' Milk Proteins, Tomato Purée, Semolina (Wheat), Rapeseed Oil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Salt, Basil, Yeast, Garlic Purée, Parsley, Wheat Flour, Wheat Starch, Thyme, Black Pepper, Malted Wheat Flour, Wheat Gluten

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
8 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.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 16 pizza with ham and cheese

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 94% of the pizza with ham and cheese 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 16 pizza with ham and cheese, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00256568, last edited 27 May 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.