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Is Tesco Medetararian Style Vegetable Quiche ultra-processed?

400 g Quiches Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Medetararian Style Vegetable 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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Vegetables 23% (Red Pepper, Yellow Pepper, Onion, Courgette, Spinach), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Semi Skimmed Milk, Egg, Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese, Tomato, Palm Oil, Maize Flour, Cornflour, Rapeseed Oil, Double Cream, Sugar, Tomato Purée, Garlic Purée, Salt, Lemon Zest, Sundried Tomatoes, Oregano, White Wine Vinegar, Thyme, Black Pepper, Basil, White Pepper, Nutmeg, Rosemary, Allergen information

As written on the pack

Vegetables (23%) [Red Pepper, Yellow Pepper, Onion, Courgette, Spinach], Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Semi Skimmed Milk, Pasteurised Egg, Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk) (10%), Tomato, Palm Oil, Maize Flour, Cornflour, Rapeseed Oil, Double Cream (Milk), Sugar, Tomato Purée, Garlic Purée, Salt, Lemon Zest, Sundried Tomatoes, Oregano, White Wine Vinegar, Thyme, Black Pepper, Basil, White Pepper, Nutmeg, Rosemary. Allergen information

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.

  • 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 43 quiches

From least to most processed, this one ranks 12th. 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 5063445787047, last edited 2 July 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.