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Is Specially Selected Cherrywood Smoked Bacon & Cheddar Quiche ultra-processed?

400 g Lorraine quiche Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Specially Selected Cherrywood Smoked Bacon & Cheddar Quiche

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:

  • 42 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed lorraine quiche

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

Whole Milk, bacon 13% (British Pork, Salt, Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), mature cheddar cheese 11%, Free Range Egg, Onion, Wheat Flour with Malted Wheat, Barley (Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Malted Wheat Flakes, Malted Barley Flour), Butter, Vegetable Shortening (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Double Cream, Cornflour, Poppy Seeds, Parsley, Rapeseed Oil, Dextrose, Mustard (Mustard Seeds, Corn Starch, Turmeric), Salt, Black Pepper, Cracked Black Pepper

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite

As written on the pack

Whole Milk, CHERRYWOOD SMOKED BACON (13%) (British Pork, Salt, Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), MATURE CHEDDAR CHEESE (11%) (Milk), Pasteurised Free Range Egg, Onion, Wheat Flour with Malted Wheat and Barley (Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Malted Wheat Flakes, Malted Barley Flour), Butter (Milk), Vegetable Shortening (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Double Cream (Milk), Cornflour, Poppy Seeds, Parsley, Rapeseed Oil, Dextrose, Mustard Powder (Ground Mustard Seeds, Corn Starch, Turmeric), Salt, Ground Black Pepper, Cracked 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.

  • 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.
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.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 12 lorraine quiche

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 42% of the lorraine quiche 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 12 lorraine quiche, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600286464, last edited 29 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.