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Is Baresa White Lasagna Sauce ultra-processed?

470 g Sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Baresa White Lasagna Sauce

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:

  • 38 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Rapeseed Oil, Butter, Butter, Milk Proteins, Whey Permeate, Modified Maize Starch, Sugar, Palm Oil, Double Cream, Butter, Broth (Sugar, Flavouring, Yeast Extract, Glucose Syrup, Salt, Sunflower Oil, Smoked Salt, Milk Protein), Yeast Extract (Yeast Extract, Maltodextrin, Onion Powder, Smoke Flavouring, White Pepper, Flavouring), Egg Yolk, Acidity Regulator, Lactic Acid, Salt, Lactose, Milk Protein, Xanthan Gum, Potassium Chloride, Flavouring, Turmeric Extract, Maltodextrin

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E270 Lactic acid , E415 Xanthan gum , E508 Potassium chloride

As written on the pack

Water, Rapeseed Oil, Butter Powder (Butter Powder (Milk), Milk Proteins, Whey Permeate (Milk), Modified Maize Starch, Sugar, Palm Oil, Double Cream (Milk), Butter (Milk), Broth Powder (Sugar, Flavouring, Yeast Extract, Glucose Syrup, Salt, Sunflower Oil, Smoked Salt, Milk Protein), Flavoured Yeast Extract (Yeast Extract, Maltodextrin, Onion Powder, Smoke Flavouring, White Pepper, Flavouring), Dried Egg Yolk, Acidity Regulator. Lactic Acid; Salt, Lactose (Milk), Milk Protein, Stabiliser: Xanthan Gum; Potassium Chloride, Flavouring, Turmeric Extract, Maltodextrin.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,964 sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2946th. 60% of the sauces 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 2,964 sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20015862, last edited 18 September 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.