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Is Sainsbury's taste THE DIFFERENCE Prosciutto Cotto Ham, Napoli Salami & Chorizo Wood-Fired Pizza ultra-processed?

455 g Pork meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's taste THE DIFFERENCE Prosciutto Cotto Ham, Napoli Salami & Chorizo 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:

  • 64 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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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), Tomatoes, Mozzarella Cheese (Cows' Milk), Water, Tomato Purée, Prosciutto Cotto Ham 4.5% (Pork, Water, Salt, Sugar, Marsala Wine, Grape, Sodium Ascorbate, Onion, Chilli, Sodium Nitrite, Triglycerides of Fatty Acids, Acacia Gum), Chorizo 4.5% (Pork, Salt, Lactose (Cows' Milk), Paprika, Dextrose, Sugar, Smoked Paprika, Milk Protein Concentrate (Cows' Milk), Garlic, Paprika Extract, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite, Potassium Nitrate, Rosemary Extract, Black Pepper, Oregano), Napoli Salami 4.5% (Pork, Salt, Dextrose, White Wine, Black Pepper, Flavouring, White Pepper, Ascorbic Acid, Paprika, Potassium Nitrate, Sodium Nitrite), Semolina (Wheat), Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Basil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Yeast, Wheat Starch, Malted Wheat Flour

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E250 Sodium nitrite , E252 Potassium nitrate , E300 Ascorbic acid , E301 Sodium ascorbate , E316 Sodium erythorbate , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E414 Acacia gum , E570 Fatty acids

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Tomatoes, Mozzarella Cheese (Cows' Milk), Water, Tomato Purée, Italian Prosciutto Cotto Ham 4.5% (Italian Pork, Water, Salt, Sugar, Marsala Wine, Grape, Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Onion, Chilli, Preservative (Sodium Nitrite), Triglycerides of Fatty Acids, Stabiliser (Acacia Gum)), Chorizo 4.5% (Spanish Pork, Salt, Lactose (Cows' Milk), Paprika, Dextrose, Sugar, Smoked Paprika, Milk Protein Concentrate (Cows' Milk), Garlic, Paprika Extract, Antioxidant (Sodium Erythorbate), Preservatives (Sodium Nitrite, Potassium Nitrate), Rosemary Extract, Black Pepper, Oregano), Italian Napoli Salami 4.5% (Italian Pork, Salt, Dextrose, White Wine, Black Pepper, Flavouring, White Pepper, Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Paprika, Preservatives (Potassium Nitrate, Sodium Nitrite)), Semolina (Wheat), Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Basil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Yeast, Wheat Starch, Malted Wheat Flour.

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
  • 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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
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.
  • E252 Potassium nitrate 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.
  • 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 62 pork meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 61st. 87% of the pork meals 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 62 pork meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00256513, last edited 4 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.