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Is Batchelors Pasta 'n' sauce Cheese & Brocoli ultra-processed?

65g Instant pasta with cheese Sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France

Pack of Batchelors Pasta 'n' sauce Cheese & Brocoli

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed instant pasta with cheese

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 Spirals 51% (Durum Wheat Semolina), Potato Starch, Dried Glucose Syrup, Buttermilk Powder, Cheese Powder 7%, Salt, Flavourings, Broccoli 1.5%, Yeast Extract Powder, Onion Powder 0.5%, Cream Powder, Lactose, Garlic, Turmeric, Spinach Powder

As written on the pack

Pasta Spirals (51%) (Durum Wheat Semolina), Potato Starch, Dried Glucose Syrup, Buttermilk Powder (Milk), Cheese Powder (7%) (Milk), Salt, Flavourings (contain Milk), Dried Broccoli (1.5%), Yeast Extract Powder, Onion Powder (0.5%), Cream Powder (Milk), Lactose (Milk), Roasted Garlic, Ground Turmeric, 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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
4 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • 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 9 instant pasta with cheese

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 78% of the instant pasta with cheese 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 9 instant pasta with cheese, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000354907456, last edited 30 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.