Is The Pizza Company The Big Cheese Pizza ultra-processed?

611 g Pizzas Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
E160b Annatto

32 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed pizzas

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Cheese Blend (processing marker) 16% (Mozzarella Full Fat Soft Cheese, Red Leicester Cheese (with Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Annatto Norbixin (ultra-processing marker))), Mature Cheddar Cheese), Cheese Crust Filling 14% (Mozzarella Full Fat Soft Cheese, Garlic Purée, Potato Starch (processing marker), Parsley), Tomato Purée, Water, Semolina (Wheat), Tomato, Rapeseed Oil, Maize, Sugar (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Yeast, Oregano, Basil, Garlic Purée, Black Pepper, Chilli

Additives: E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Cheese Blend (16%) [Mozzarella Full Fat Soft Cheese (Milk), Red Leicester Cheese (with Colour: Annatto Norbixin) (Milk), Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk)], Cheese Crust Filling (14%) [Mozzarella Full Fat Soft Cheese (Milk), Garlic Purée, Potato Starch, Parsley], Tomato Purée, Water, Semolina (Wheat), Tomato, Rapeseed Oil, Maize, Sugar, Salt, Yeast, Oregano, Basil, Garlic Purée, Black Pepper, Chilli Powder.

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.

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.

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.

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.
Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 371 pizzas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 177th. 78% of the pizzas 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 371 pizzas, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5051873005918, 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.