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Meat-based sauces, from least to most processed

We track 43 meat-based sauces, 60% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Mr Ridiculously Good's Smooth Tomato Bolognese.

What makes meat-based sauces ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of meat-based sauces that contain each:

Unprocessed or minimally processed (1)

  1. 1 Mr Ridiculously Good's Smooth Tomato Bolognese Heinz · 490.0 g 1

Processed food (16)

  1. 2 Bolognese Sauce - No Added Sugar Tesco · 500.0 g 3
  2. 3 Bolognese Pasta Sauce Tesco 3
  3. 4 Smooth Bolognese Sauce Tesco · 500 g 3
  4. 5 Bolognese sauce Mr Organic · 350g 3
  5. 6 Low Fat Bolognese sauce Dolmio · 500 g 3
  6. 7 bolognese sauce Filippo Berio · 340g 3
  7. 8 Pasta Sauce Bolognese Mutti · 400 g 3
  8. 9 Bolognese Sauce Smooth Hidden Veggies Ballymaloe 3
  9. 10 Bolognese Original Loyd Grossman · 350 g 3
  10. 11 Bolognese origional Lloyd Grossman · 660g 3
  11. 12 Findus Köttfärssås Original Findus · 500g 3
  12. 13 spaghetti och köttfärssås Saarioinen · 320 g 3
  13. 14 Beef bolognese sauce Marks & Spencer 3
  14. 15 dolmio onion & garlic Dolmio 3
  15. 16 Bolognese Pasta Sauce M&S · 340g 3
  16. 17 Bolognese Pasta Sauce Specially Selected 3

Ultra-processed food (26)

  1. 18 Base per Bolognese Barilla · 400.0 g 4
  2. 19 Old World Style Sauce Flavored with Meat Ragu · 677 g 4
  3. 20 Vegan bolognese sauce Saclà 4
  4. 21 Tomato & Herb Bolognese Sauce Sainsbury's · 500 g 4
  5. 22 Bolognese Pasta Sauce Asda · 500 g 4
  6. 23 Bolognese Pasta Sauce 4
  7. 24 bolognese sauce Dolmio · 500 g 4
  8. 25 Sauce for Bolognese Dolmio 4
  9. 26 Smooth Classico Dolmio · 500 g 4
  10. 27 Bolognese pasta sauce Lidl · 500g 4
  11. 28 Bolognese Onion & Garlic Dolmio 4
  12. 29 Bolognese pasta sauce Aldi 4
  13. 30 Bolognese Dolmio 4
  14. 31 16000274 Bolognese with Chunky Tomato, Garlic & Herbs Leggo's · 500 g 4
  15. 32 Mutti Parma Vegan Bolognese with Pea Protein Mutti · 400g 4
  16. 33 Beef Pasta Bolognese Myprotein · 350 g 4
  17. 34 Carbonara Sauce Tesco 4
  18. 35 smooth bolognese pasta sauce Asda 4
  19. 36 Tomato & Smoked Bacon Sauce Loyd Grossman · 350g 4
  20. 37 Pride Köttfärssås Bolognese B&S Foods · 490g 4
  21. 38 Monte Castello Köttfärssås EMD · 490 g 4
  22. 39 Nations favourite bisto gravy granules 190g 4
  23. 40 The nation’s favourite bisto for chicken gravy granules Bisto · 190g 4
  24. 41 Bisto Best Beef Gravy Bisto 4
  25. 42 Best Chicken Gravy Bisto · 390g 4
  26. 43 Chicken gravy Bisto · 250g 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.