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Is Batchelors Pasta n sauce Chicken and mushroom ultra-processed?

Poultry meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Batchelors Pasta n sauce Chicken and mushroom

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed poultry meals

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

ingredients as sold (greatest first, pasta tubes 84%, durum wheat semolina), wheat flour, maize sty eal starch, whey powder, yeast extract powder, salt, onion powder, flavourings, mushroom 0.5%, vegetable oils (sunflower vegetable oils, palm vegetable oils), parsley, sup ground turmeric, chicken fat, black pepper extact, including cereals containing gluten, elos pue no added msg cooking instructio s, on the hob (water), milk (anu 10g bucter if you fancy), 7oq a 6 ntil pasta is tend

As written on the pack

ingredients as sold (greatest first): pasta tubes (84%) (durum wheat semolina, wheat flour), maize sty eal starch, whey powder (milk), yeast extract powder, salt, onion powder, flavourings, mushroom juice concentrate powder (0.5%), vegetable oils (sunflower, palm), dried parsley, sup ground turmeric, chicken fat, black pepper extact. allergy advice: for allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. may also contain celery, egg and soya. elos pue no added msg cooking instructio s - on the hob: water, 100ml milk (anu 10g bucter if you fancy) 7oq a 6 ntil pasta is tend

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.

  • 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.
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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 233 poultry meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 99th. 78% of the poultry meals 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 233 poultry meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000354404016, 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.