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Is Tesco Finest Maple bacon and extra mature cheddar quiche ultra-processed?

420g Quiches Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Finest Maple bacon and extra mature cheddar 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:

  • 28 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Skimmed Milk, Egg, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Maple Cured Smoked Streaky Bacon 13% (Pork Belly, Salt, Sugar, Maple Syrup, Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)), Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese, Onion, Mild Cheddar Cheese, Double Cream, Fromage Frais, Cornflour, Palm Oil, Butter, Maize Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, White Pepper, Nutmeg

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite

As written on the pack

Skimmed Milk, Pasteurised Egg. Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Maple Cured Smoked Streaky Bacon (13%) [ Pork Belly, Salt, Sugar, Maple Syrup, Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)], Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk) (8%), Onion, Mild Cheddar Cheese (Milk), Double Cream (Milk), Fromage Frais (Milk), Cornflour, Palm Oil, Butter (Milk), Maize Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, White 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.
  • Maple syrup An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • 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.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

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 43 quiches

From least to most processed, this one ranks 18th. 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 5059512730139, 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.