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Is Waitrose Beetroot, Spinach & Marscapone Quiche ultra-processed?

1x 400g Cakes Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Beetroot, Spinach & Marscapone 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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed sweet snacks

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

Milk, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), mascarpone cheese 12%, free range egg, beetroot 9%, spinach 6%, mild Cheddar cheese, onion, palm oil, cornflour, double cream, single cream, balsamic vinegar (wine vinegar, grape must), rapeseed oil, skimmed milk powder, parsley, chive, sugar, free range egg, salt, black pepper, white pepper, nutmeg

As written on the pack

Milk, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), mascarpone cheese (12%) (milk), pasteurised free range egg, beetroot (9%), spinach (6%), mild Cheddar cheese (milk), onion, palm oil (certified sustainable), cornflour, double cream (milk), single cream (milk), balsamic vinegar (wine vinegar, grape must concentrate), rapeseed oil, skimmed milk powder, parsley, chive, sugar, dried pasteurised free range egg, salt, 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.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

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.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 377 cakes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 94% of the cakes 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 377 cakes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169671610, last edited 27 September 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.