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Is Bosphorus God Husman Pasta med Tomat & Mozzarella ultra-processed?

430 g Refrigerated meals Sold in Sweden

Pack of Bosphorus God Husman Pasta med Tomat & Mozzarella

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed refrigerated foods

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 med tomatsås 84%, pasta 66% (pasta (durumvete)), tomatsås 34%, krossade tomater (tomat, tomatjuice, salt, antioxidationsmedel (citronsyra)), mjölk, lök, rapsolja, vatten, kryddblandning (paprika, vitlök, svartpeppar, spiskummin, chili, kardemumma, ingefära, nejlikor), salt, konserveringsmedel (kaliumsorbat), mozzarella 7% (mjölk, salt 1.4%, syrningskultur, ystenzym), broccoli

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Pasta med tomatsås 84 % (pasta 66 % (pasta (durumvete)), tomatsås 34 % (krossade tomater (tomat, tomatjuice, salt, antioxidationsmedel (citronsyra)), mjölk, lök, rapsolja, vatten, kryddblandning (paprika, vitlök, svartpeppar, spiskummin, chili, kardemumma, ingefära, nejlikor), salt, konserveringsmedel (kaliumsorbat)), mozzarella 7 % (pastöriserad mjölk, salt 1,4 %, syrningskultur, ystenzym), broccoli.

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

Culinary ingredients

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.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 44 refrigerated meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 15th. 61% of the refrigerated 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 44 refrigerated meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7350018348292, last edited 2 April 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.