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Is Waitrose Wood Fired Chargrilled Vegetable & Pesto Sourdough Pizza ultra-processed?

Vegetable pizza Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Wood Fired Chargrilled Vegetable & Pesto Sourdough Pizza

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:

  • 67 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed vegetable pizza

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

Sourdough starter 20% (wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), water, wheat flour, wheat starch, wheat, sourdough culture (wheat)), wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), mozzarella cheese, tomato, tomatoes 5% (tomatoes, vegetable oils (rapeseed oil, sunflower oil), water, apple cider vinegar, parsley, salt, garlic, mint, chilli pepper, acidity regulator (citric acid)), yellow pepper 5%, water, courgette 4%, tomato concentrate, black olives 3%, mascarpone cheese (cream, milk proteins), tomato purée, wheat semolina, mozzarella cheese balls, extra virgin olive oil, basil, salt, rapeseed oil, regato cheese, yeast, vegetable oils (rapeseed oil, sunflower oil), wheat flour, dextrose, olive oil, deactivated yeast, lemon juice, garlic purée, wheat gluten, malted wheat flour, black pepper acidity regulator (citric acid), antioxidant (ascorbic acid)

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Sourdough starter (20%) (wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), water, wheat flour, wheat starch, malted wheat, sourdough culture (wheat)), wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), mozzarella cheese (milk), tomato, semi-dried tomatoes (5%) (tomatoes, vegetable oils [rapeseed oil, sunflower oil], water, apple cider vinegar, parsley, salt, garlic powder, mint, chilli pepper, acidity regulator (citric acid)), yellow pepper (5%), water, courgette (4%), tomato concentrate, black olives (3%), mascarpone cheese (cream (milk), milk proteins), tomato purée, wheat semolina, mozzarella cheese balls (milk), extra virgin olive oil, basil, salt, rapeseed oil, regato cheese (milk), yeast, vegetable oils (rapeseed oil, sunflower oil) wheat flour, dextrose, olive oil, deactivated yeast, lemon juice, garlic purée, wheat gluten, malted wheat flour, black pepper acidity regulator (citric acid), antioxidant (ascorbic acid)

What makes it ultra-processed

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 10 vegetable pizza

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 60% of the vegetable pizza 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 10 vegetable pizza, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169657225, 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.