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Is Batchelors Pasta 'N' Sauce Cheese & Broccoli ultra-processed?

99g Pastas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Batchelors Pasta 'N' Sauce Cheese & Broccoli

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed pastas

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

Pasta Tubes 81% (Durum Wheat Semolina, Wheat Flour), Cheese Powder 6%, Modified Maize Starch, Dried Glucose Syrup, Broccoli 1.5%, Flavourings (contain Barley, Milk), Salt, Onion Powder 0.5%, Emulsifier (Pentasodium Triphosphate), Cream Powder, Garlic Powder, Turmeric, Black Pepper Extract, Spinach Powder

Additives: E451 Triphosphates , E451i Pentasodium triphosphate

As written on the pack

Pasta Tubes (81%) (Durum Wheat Semolina, Wheat Flour), Cheese Powder (6%) (Milk), Modified Maize Starch, Dried Glucose Syrup, Dried Broccoli (1.5%), Flavourings (contain Barley, Milk), Salt, Onion Powder (0.5%). Emulsifier (Pentasodium Triphosphate), Cream Powder (Milk), Roasted Garlic Powder, Ground Turmeric, Black Pepper Extract, Spinach Powder.

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.

  • E451 Triphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • 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.
3 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 999 pastas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 825th. 51% of the pastas 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 999 pastas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000354404009, last edited 19 July 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.