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Is Taste The Difference Cheddar Caramelized Onio Quice ultra-processed?

400g, 4 servings Quiches Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Taste The Difference Cheddar Caramelized Onio Quice

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:

  • 49 ingredients
  • 2 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), Single Cream (Cows' Milk), Crème Fraîche (Cows' Milk), Cows' Milk, Onions 10% (Onions, Sugar, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Sherry Vinegar, Balsamic Vinegar (White Wine Vinegar, Grape), Cornflour, Salt, Black Pepper), Pasteurised British Free Range Egg 10%, Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese 7% (Cows' Milk), Red Leicester Cheese 7% (Cows' Milk, Colour (Beta Carotene)), Butter (Cows' Milk), Vegetable Shortening (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Barbers Vintage Cheddar Cheese 4% (Cows' Milk), Cornflour, Chives, Dijon Mustard (Water, Brown Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Salt, Dextrose, Black Pepper, Wheat Flour, White Pepper

Additives: E160a Carotene , E160ai Beta-carotene

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Single Cream (Cows' Milk), Crème Fraîche (Cows' Milk), Cows' Milk, Caramelised Onions (10%) (Onions, Sugar, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Sherry Vinegar, Balsamic Vinegar (White Wine Vinegar, Concentrated Grape Extract), Cornflour, Salt, Black Pepper), Pasteurised British Free Range Egg (10%), Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese (7%) (Cows' Milk), Red Leicester Cheese (7%) (Cows' Milk) (Colour: Beta Carotene), Butter (Cows' Milk) (4.5%), Vegetable Shortening (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Barbers Vintage Cheddar Cheese (4%) (Cows' Milk), Cornflour, Chives, Dijon Mustard (Water, Brown Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Salt, Dextrose, Black Pepper, Wheat Flour, White Pepper.

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.

  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • 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.

  • 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.
6 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.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • 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 43 quiches

From least to most processed, this one ranks 38th. 47% of the quiches 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 43 quiches, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00279338, 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.