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Is Specially Selected Ham, Portobello Mushroom & Mascarpone Pizza ultra-processed?

Pizza with ham and cheese Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Specially Selected Ham, Portobello Mushroom & Mascarpone 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:

  • 50 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Tomato Sauce (Tomatoes, Tomato Passata, Water, Tomato Purée, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Basil, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Black Pepper, Garlic Purée), mozzarella cheese, Water, garlic mushrooms 10% (Mushrooms, Garlic Purée, Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Coarse Black Pepper), formed ham with added water 7% (Pork, Water, Salt, Dextrose, Flavouring, Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)), mascarpone cheese, Gran Levanto Cheese, Salt, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Yeast, Sugar, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Enzyme (Wheat)

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E301 Sodium ascorbate , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Tomato Sauce (Tomatoes, Tomato Passata, Water, Tomato Purée, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Basil, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Ground Black Pepper, Garlic Purée), MOZZARELLA CHEESE (MILK) (13%), Water, GARLIC MUSHROOMS (10%) (Mushrooms, Garlic Purée, Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Coarse Black Pepper), FORMED HAM WITH ADDED WATER (7%) (Pork, Water, Salt, Dextrose, Flavouring, Antioxidant: Sodium Ascorbate; Preservative: Sodium Nitrite), MASCARPONE CHEESE (MILK) (6%), Gran Levanto Cheese (Milk), Salt, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Yeast, Sugar, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Enzyme (Wheat). ALLERGY ADVICE:

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.
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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.
  • 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 9th. 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 4088600035826, 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.