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Is Tesco Cheese & Garlic Flatbread ultra-processed?

230g Breads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Cheese & Garlic Flatbread

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:

  • 24 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

NGREDIENTS Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Mozzarella Medium Fat Soft Cheese, Rapeseed Oil, Durum Wheat Semolina, Provolone Medium Fat Hard Cheese, Regato Cheese, Garlic, Wheat Fibre, Butter, Mature Cheddar Cheese, Sugar, Salt, Parsley, Yeast, Palm Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Buttermilk Powder

As written on the pack

NGREDIENTS Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Water, Mozzarella Medium Fat Soft Cheese (Milk) (5%), Rapeseed Oil, Durum Wheat Semolina, Provolone Medium Fat Hard Cheese (Milk), Regato Cheese (Milk), Garlic, Wheat Fibre, Butter (Milk), Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk), Sugar, Salt, Parsley, Yeast, Palm Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Buttermilk Powder. Allergy Advice

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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,388 breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 841st. 71% of the breads 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 2,388 breads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5054402369406, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.