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Is Tesco BBQ Chicken Stone Baked Pizza ultra-processed?

Frozen pizzas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco BBQ Chicken Stone Baked 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:

  • 63 ingredients
  • 4 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

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Mozzarella Medium Fat Soft Cheese, Barbecue Sauce (Tomato Purée, Water, Invert Sugar Syrup, Sugar, Spirit Vinegar, Cane Molasses, Cornflour, Salt, Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Smoked Paprika, Tapioca Starch, Garlic Purée, Water, Thickener (Pectin), Clove, Oregano), Barbecue Chicken 11% (Chicken, Water, Sugar, Cornflour, Salt, Smoked Paprika, Caramelised Sugar, Tomato, Garlic, Onion, Spirit Vinegar, Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Stabiliser (Guar Gum), Smoke Flavouring, Black Pepper, Chilli, Paprika Extract, Cinnamon, Clove), Tomato Purée, Red Pepper, Red Onion, Sweetcorn, Semolina (Wheat), Tomato, Rapeseed Oil, Sea Salt, Yeast, Malted Wheat Flour, Basil, Lemon Juice, Cornflour, Garlic Purée, Made using Thai chicken

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid , E412 Guar gum , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Mozzarella Medium Fat Soft Cheese (Milk), Barbecue Sauce [Tomato Purée, Water, Invert Sugar Syrup, Sugar, Spirit Vinegar, Cane Molasses, Cornflour, Salt, Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Smoked Paprika, Tapioca Starch, Garlic Purée, Smoked Water, Thickener (Pectin), Clove Powder, Oregano], Barbecue Chicken (11%) [Chicken, Water, Sugar, Cornflour, Salt, Smoked Paprika, Caramelised Sugar, Tomato Powder, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Spirit Vinegar, Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Stabiliser (Guar Gum). Smoke Flavouring, Black Pepper, Chilli Powder, Paprika Extract, Cinnamon, Clove], Tomato Purée, Red Pepper, Red Onion, Sweetcorn, Semolina (Wheat), Tomato, Rapeseed Oil, Sea Salt, Yeast, Malted Wheat Flour, Basil, Lemon Juice, Cornflour, Garlic Purée. Made using Thai chicken. 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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.

  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
5 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.
  • 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.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 191 frozen pizzas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 169th. 84% of the frozen pizzas 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 191 frozen pizzas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059512741098, last edited 29 June 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.