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Is Waitrose cheese & onion quiche ultra-processed?

400g Quiches Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose cheese & onion quiche

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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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), free range egg, sautéed onion 10% (onion, butter, rapeseed oil, salt), extra mature Cheddar cheese, Red Leicester cheese (with colour annato norbixin), palm oil, onion, double cream, single cream, cornflour, rapeseed oil, skimmed milk powder, chive, free range egg, salt, white pepper, black pepper, nutmeg

Additives: E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E160b Annatto.

As written on the pack

Milk, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), pasteurised free range egg, sautéed onion (10%) (onion, butter (milk), rapeseed oil, salt), extra mature Cheddar cheese (milk) (9%), Red Leicester cheese (milk) (4%) (with colour annato norbixin), palm oil (certified sustainable), onion, double cream (milk), single cream (milk), cornflour, rapeseed oil, skimmed milk powder, chive, dried pasteurised free range egg, salt, white pepper, black pepper, nutmeg

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.
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.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 43 quiches

From least to most processed, this one ranks 27th. 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 5000169026069, 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.