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Is Tesco finest Sicilian Lemon & King Prawn Wood Fired Pizza ultra-processed?

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Pack of Tesco finest Sicilian Lemon & King Prawn Wood Fired 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:

  • 43 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Prawn, Mozzarella Full Fat Soft Cheese, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Tomato Purée, Whole Milk, Spinach, Semolina (Wheat), Whipping Cream, Crème Fraîche, Skimmed Milk, Sicilian Lemon Juice, Mascarpone Full Fat Soft Cheese, Lemon Zest, Parsley, Garlic, Salt, Cornflour, Yeast, Wheat, Wheat Starch, Deactivated Yeast, Butter, Gelling Agent (Pectin), Malted Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed Oil, Sunflower Oil), Muscovado Sugar, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Wheat Gluten, White Pepper, Black Pepper, Made using prawns farmed in Thailand and Honduras

Additives: E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Prawn (Crustacean) (13%), Mozzarella Full Fat Soft Cheese (Milk), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Tomato Purée, Whole Milk, Spinach, Semolina (Wheat), Whipping Cream (Milk), Crème Fraîche (Milk), Skimmed Milk, Sicilian Lemon Juice, Mascarpone Full Fat Soft Cheese (Milk), Lemon Zest, Parsley, Garlic, Salt, Cornflour, Yeast, Malted Wheat, Wheat Starch, Deactivated Yeast, Butter (Milk), Gelling Agent (Pectin), Malted Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oil [Rapeseed Oil, Sunflower Oil], Muscovado Sugar, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Wheat Gluten, White Pepper, Black Pepper. Made using prawns farmed in Thailand and Honduras.

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.

  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.

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.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5063445795660, last edited 18 February 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.