Is Chef Select Meatballs with vegetables and pork ultra-processed?

300 g Beef Sold in Sweden

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Glucose
E325 Sodium lactate

36 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed beef

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

Grönsaker i varierande proportion 65% (morot, majs, lök, röd paprika, broccoli), fläskkött 25%, ströbröd (vetemjöl, vatten, salt (processing marker), jäst), vatten, surhetsreglerande medel (natriumlaktat (ultra-processing marker), natriumacetater), potatisflingor, rismjöl, salt (processing marker) (salt, jod), kryddor, druvsocker (ultra-processing marker), potatis, vetemjöl, äggpulver, potatisstärkelse (processing marker), kryddextrakt, senap (vatten, senapsfrön, ättiksprit, salt (processing marker), socker (processing marker), kryddor), örtkryddor

Additives: E262 Sodium acetates , E325 Sodium lactate

As written on the pack

Grönsaker i varierande proportion 65 % (morot, majs, lök, röd paprika, broccoli), fläskkött 25%, ströbröd (vetemjöl, vatten, salt, jäst), vatten, surhetsreglerande medel (natriumlaktat, natriumacetater), potatisflingor, rismjöl, salt (salt, jod), kryddor, druvsocker, potatis, vetemjöl, äggpulver, potatisstärkelse, kryddextrakt, senap (vatten, senapsfrön, ättiksprit, salt, socker, kryddor), örtkryddor.

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.

E325 Sodium lactate Antioxidants are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by oxidation, such as fat rancidity and colour changes.

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.

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.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 103 beef

From least to most processed, this one ranks 86th. 49% of the beef 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 103 beef, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20918705, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.