Is Tesco Four cheese 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:
- 21 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat Flour, Water, Mozzarella Full Fat Soft Cheese, Tomato Purée, Emmental Medium Fat Hard Cheese, Mild Cheddar Cheese (processing marker), Red Cheddar Cheese (processing marker) (with Colours (ultra-processing marker) (Annatto Norbixin (ultra-processing marker)), Beta-Carotene (ultra-processing marker)), Tomato Paste, Onion, Salt (processing marker), Sunflower Oil (processing marker), Modified Maize Starch (ultra-processing marker), Yeast, Sugar (processing marker), Olive Oil (processing marker), Black Pepper, including cereals containing gluten, Also
Additives: E160a Carotene , E160ai Beta-carotene , E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin
As written on the pack
Wheat Flour, Water, Mozzarella Full Fat Soft Cheese (Milk) (13%), Tomato Purée, Emmental Medium Fat Hard Cheese (Milk) (8%), Mild Cheddar Cheese (Milk) (2.5%), Red Cheddar Cheese (with Colours: Annatto Norbixin, Beta-Carotene) (Milk) (2.5%), Tomato Paste, Onion, Salt, Sunflower Oil, Modified Maize Starch, Yeast, Sugar, Olive Oil, Black Pepper. Allergy Advice For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. Also, may contain soya and mustard.
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.
- E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
- E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
6 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.
- Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
- 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.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
Among 39 cheese pizzas
From least to most processed, this one ranks 35th. 69% of the cheese pizzas here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697698934, 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.