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Is Tesco Vegetable & Sundries Tomato Quiche ultra-processed?

400g Quiches with vegetables Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Vegetable & Sundries Tomato 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:

  • 43 ingredients
  • No additives

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Vegetables 23% (Courgette, Red Pepper, Yellow Pepper, Onion, Spinach), Semi Skimmed Milk, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese, Tomato, Egg, Palm Oil, Cornflour, Maize Flour, Double Cream, Tomato Paste 1.5% (Water, Rapeseed Oil, Sundried Tomatoes, White Wine Vinegar, Salt, Garlic Purée, Sugar, Basil, Rosemary, Black Pepper), Rapeseed Oil, Onion, Sugar, Tomato Purée, Lemon Zest, Garlic Purée, Oregano, Salt, Thyme, Black Pepper, White Pepper, Nutmeg

As written on the pack

Vegetables (23%) [Courgette, Red Pepper, Yellow Pepper, Onion, Spinach]. Semi Skimmed Milk, Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk) (12%), Tomato, Pasteurised Egg, Palm Oil, Cornflour, Maize Flour, Double Cream (Milk), Sundried Tomato Paste (1.5%) [Water, Rapeseed Oil, Sundried Tomatoes, White Wine Vinegar, Salt, Garlic Purée, Sugar, Basil, Rosemary, Black Pepper], Rapeseed Oil, Onion, Sugar, Tomato Purée, Lemon Zest, Garlic Purée, Oregano, Salt, Thyme, Black Pepper, 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.

  • 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 9 quiches with vegetables

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 22% of the quiches with vegetables 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 9 quiches with vegetables, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5057545878996, last edited 17 August 2024), 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.