Is Waitrose Broccoli, spinach & ricotta quiche ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 23 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score D
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Milk, broccoli 16%, fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), extra mature Cheddar cheese (processing marker), free range egg, Ricotta cheese (processing marker), spinach 5%, palm oil, double cream, single cream, cornflour, rapeseed oil, skimmed milk powder (processing marker), free range egg, salt (processing marker), black pepper, nutmeg, white pepper
As written on the pack
Milk, broccoli (16%), fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), extra mature Cheddar cheese (milk), pasteurised free range egg, Ricotta cheese (milk) (8%), spinach (5%), palm oil, double cream (milk), single cream (milk), cornflour, rapeseed oil, skimmed milk powder, dried free range egg, salt, black pepper, nutmeg, white pepper
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.
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.
Among 43 quiches
From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 47% of the quiches here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169448588, last edited 26 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.