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Is Tesco finest goats cheese and red pepper quiche ultra-processed?

420g Lorraine quiche Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco finest goats cheese and red pepper quiche

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 29 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

skimmed milk, egg, wheat flour (calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), red pepper 10%, medium fat soft goat's cheese 6%, mild cheddar cheese, tomato, double cream, fromage frais, cornflour, onion, palm oil, butter, maize flour, tomato puree, rapeseed oil, garlic puree, sugar, parsley, basil, thyme, salt, white pepper, black pepper, nutmeg

As written on the pack

skimmed milk, pasteurised egg, wheat flour (calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), red pepper (10%), medium fat soft goat's cheese (6%), mild cheddar cheese, tomato, double cream, fromage frais, cornflour, onion, palm oil, butter, maize flour, tomato puree, rapeseed oil, garlic puree, sugar, parsley, basil, thyme, salt, white pepper, black pepper, nutmeg

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

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

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 12 lorraine quiche

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 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 5057753897437, 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.