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Is Charlie Bigham’s Vegetable lasagne ultra-processed?

730g Vegetable lasagnas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Charlie Bigham’s Vegetable lasagne

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:

  • 40 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Milk, mushrooms, egg pasta (durum wheat semolina, water, free-range egg), tomatoes, red wine, red peppers, lentils, carrots, onions, Cheddar cheese, aubergine, courgettes, yellow peppers, butter, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), tomato purée, honey, rapeseed oil, soy sauce (water, soya beans, wheat, salt), celery, cornflour, white wine vinegar, salt, parsley, garlic purée, oregano, star anise, nutmeg

As written on the pack

Milk, mushrooms, egg pasta (durum wheat semolina, water, free-range egg), tomatoes, red wine, red peppers, lentils, carrots, onions, Cheddar cheese (milk), aubergine, courgettes, yellow peppers, butter (milk), wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), tomato purée, honey, rapeseed oil, soy sauce (water, soya beans, wheat, salt), celery, cornflour, white wine vinegar, salt, parsley, garlic purée, oregano, ground star anise, ground nutmeg.

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

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

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

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

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 8 vegetable lasagnas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 50% of the vegetable lasagnas 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 8 vegetable lasagnas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5033665212568, last edited 27 March 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.