Is Tesco Finest Ham mashroom and mascarpone wood fired pizza ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 46 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed pork meals
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Mozzarella Full Fat Soft Cheese, Roasted Formed Ham With Added Water 8% (Pork, Water, Salt (processing marker), Stabiliser (Tripotassium Phosphate), Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Preservative (processing marker) (Sodium Nitrite (processing marker))), Chestnut Mushroom 7%, Milk, Mascarpone Full Fat Soft Cheese, Rapeseed Oil, Whipping Cream, Semolina (Wheat), Tomato Paste, Parmigiano Reggiano Medium Fat Hard Cheese, Cornflour, Parsley, Extra Virgin Olive Oil (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Yeast, Lemon Juice, Garlic, Potato Starch (processing marker), Porcini Mushroom, Low Sodium Sea Salt, Deactivated Yeast, Sea Salt (processing marker), Butter (processing marker), Black Pepper, Thyme, White Pepper, Wheat Gluten (ultra-processing marker), Muscovado Sugar (processing marker), Made using British pork
Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E301 Sodium ascorbate , E340 Potassium phosphates , E340iii Tripotassium phosphate
As written on the pack
Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Water, Mozzarella Full Fat Soft Cheese (Milk), Roasted Formed Ham With Added Water (8%) [Pork, Water, Salt, Stabiliser (Tripotassium Phosphate), Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)], Chestnut Mushroom (7%), Milk, Mascarpone Full Fat Soft Cheese (Milk) (6%), Rapeseed Oil, Whipping Cream (Milk), Semolina (Wheat), Tomato Paste, Parmigiano Reggiano Medium Fat Hard Cheese (Milk), Cornflour, Parsley, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Salt, Yeast, Lemon Juice, Garlic, Potato Starch, Porcini Mushroom Powder, Low Sodium Sea Salt, Deactivated Yeast, Sea Salt, Butter (Milk), Black Pepper, Thyme, White Pepper, Wheat Gluten, Muscovado Sugar. Made using British pork.
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.
- Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- 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.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 62 pork meals
From least to most processed, this one ranks 20th. 87% of the pork meals here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5057967576289, 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.