What Is The UK's Best Supermarket Pesto?

by Michael Hawkins February 20, 2026

Short answer
In September 2025, Which? published the results of its biggest survey into the UK's favourite supermarket pesto and Filippo Berio walked away with the consumer group's Best Buy status with a 73% satisfaction rating.

Long answer
Consumer group Which? asked 71 blind taste testers to rate their favourite pesto from a selection of 10 sauces based on a number of factors including flavour, visual appeal, fragrance and consistency.

Being the second most expensive pesto with an RRP of £2.80 for a 190g jar, it's perhaps not a huge surprise that Filippo Berio's Classic Basil Pesto clinched the top spot with a satisfaction rating of 73%. Tasters are said to have loved the aroma, found the texture a good balance of not too smooth and not too coarse, and thought the level of basil flavour was just about right. In response, Filippo Berio's UK managing director Walter Zanre was said to be "immensely proud" of their pesto being named the nation's favourite.

Flippo Berio Basil Pesto - A Which Best Buy

It was interesting to note that several supermarket's far cheaper own-brand sauces weren't too far behind. In fact, Ocado's own-label basil pesto which clocks in almost 60% cheaper at £1.10 per 190g achieved a satisfaction rating of 70%, while Aldi's Cucina Basil Pesto achieved a rating of 69% despite being a whopping 65% cheaper.

Which?'s best UK pesto results in full
1st: Filippo Berio (73%)
2nd: Ocado (70%
Joint 3rd: Aldi, Asda and Sacla (69%)
6th: Lidl (68%)
7th: Tesco (67%)
Joint 8th: Morrisons and Sainsbury's (64%)
10th: M&S (63%)

It's worth noting that by narrowing the blind taste testing to just ten sauces, a huge number of sauces on the market weren't given their chance to compete. The 59 basil pesto sauces shown in the montage below are all available to UK consumers within a few clicks of a mouse, and that's before you even consider all the non-traditional pestos that are based on tomatoes, chillies, mushrooms and a whole host of other hero ingredients.

Montage showing jars of various basil pesto sauces commercially available

If that doesn't make you slightly sceptical of these kind of surveys then bear this in mind too: While M&S came last place in Which?'s report, it was crowned the winner (beating Sacla, Filippo Berio and every other own-label supermarket pesto) in both Saga Magazine and The Guardian in the same year. Proof then, if it were ever needed, that it's worth taking these kinds of surveys with a very generous pinch of salt.