Is Waitrose Pizza base topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella and Cheddar cheese ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 22 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), mozzarella cheese (processing marker), water, Cheddar cheese (processing marker), tomatoes 9%, tomato purée, wheat semolina, rapeseed oil, yeast, extra virgin olive oil (processing marker), salt (processing marker), basil, low sodium sea salt (sea salt (processing marker), sodium chloride, potassium chloride), deactivated yeast
As written on the pack
Wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), mozzarella cheese (milk) (16%), water, Cheddar cheese (milk) (10%), tomatoes (9%), tomato purée, wheat semolina, rapeseed oil, yeast, extra virgin olive oil, salt, basil, low sodium sea salt (sea salt, sodium chloride, potassium chloride), deactivated yeast
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.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
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 94 vegetarian pizzas
From least to most processed, this one ranks 21st. 63% of the vegetarian pizzas here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169637616, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.