Food · DiGiorno
DiGiorno Rising Crust Pepperoni
071921000016
Low nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 g
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Worse than 9 in 10 packs in Frozen. The swap is on this aisle.
Council note
Sodium nitrite is a high-concern extra. That is enough to keep this off an everyday list — and we would not pack it for a child.
Watch-outs
High-concern extra
Sodium nitrite
Extra care in pregnancy
Sodium nitrite
The pack
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
How often
Rarely
Who it’s for
Anyone comparing similar products in this aisle.
Skip if
It clashes with the notes you keep in your profile — allergens, diet, or extras you asked us to flag.
- This nutrition box cannot be rated Excellent
- Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
- A high-concern extra blocks a Good rating
At a glance
How often
Rarely
Nutrition box
Low
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
2 additives
Planet
Heavier footprint · 32/100
Organic
Not organic
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. Cannot be rated Good — a rare treat, not a habit.
Palm oil, heavy processing, or farming choices that cost more than they give back.
No shelf price logged yet. When a shopper posts a receipt to Open Prices, it lands here.
Why this number
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Poor · 34/100 · nutrition low
- Nutrition quality32/100
- Ingredients59/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
What pulled it down
This nutrition box cannot be rated Excellent
This is a treat pattern. It can only scrape into low Good if the list is clean and it is not ultra-processed.
Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
A factory recipe — flavours, colours, or many additives — cannot be rated Good. A sometimes treat, not a daily habit.
A high-concern extra blocks a Good rating
A cluster of extras keeps this at Poor: a sometimes product, not a habit.
Two red lights on the box cannot be rated Good
Two red lights on salt, sugar or saturated fat keep this at Poor, not Good.
A weak-ish nutrition box
About 1.5 teaspoons of sugar in 100 g. Salt is high. A treat pattern.
Ultra-processed
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. A growing pile of research ties a diet of these to poorer health — not because one biscuit is poison, but because the pattern crowds out real food.
Palm oil
-8High in saturated fat. Process contaminants (3-MCPD, glycidyl esters) in refined oils.
Sodium nitrite
-28Forms nitrosamines (IARC Group 1 in processed meat). Used to cure meat.
Monosodium glutamate
-5Flavour enhancer. Safe for most; a subset reports sensitivity.
Nutrition is half the number. Ingredients a quarter. How processed a fifth. Organic is a small bonus — it cannot rescue a sugary drink or a nitrite ham. How this compares to Nutri-Score
Nutrition · per 100 g
| Energy | 1130 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 6 gMedium A little sugar — about 1.5 teaspoons in 100 g. |
| Saturated fat | 7 gHigh |
| Salt | 1.6 gHigh Salty. Easy to overshoot a day’s worth if this is a habit. |
| Fibre | 2 g |
| Protein | 12 g |
| Fruit, veg, nuts | 6 % |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Enriched flour, water, cheese, pepperoni, tomato paste, palm oil, sugar, salt, MSG.
Sodium nitriteE250
−28Processed meats with nitrite are the ones to eat rarely — the concern is bowel cancer in that pattern, not one sandwich.
Extra care in pregnancy · Extra care for children
Palm oil
−8High in saturated fat. The other cost is landscape. A daily chocolate spread is both stories at once.
Monosodium glutamateE621
−5Safe for most. A few people report a reaction; most do not.
Wheat flour
No concernContains gluten. Otherwise a staple.
Pork
No concernA meat. The processing around it — nitrite, slurry — is the usual issue, not the animal itself.
Salt
No concernThe nutrition box already scores it. A pinch in cooking is not a packet of noodles.
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