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Is Chef Select Pasta med krämig ost- & skinksås ultra-processed?

400g Frozen ready-made meals Sold in Sweden

Pack of Chef Select Pasta med krämig ost- & skinksås

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:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Pasta med ost, och skinksås, Djupfryst, Ingredienser (Ingredienser), ost 56%, och skinksås (skummjölk, köttberedning (skinka 2.4%, fläskbog 2.4%, potatisstärkelse, salt, socker, antioxidationsmedel (extrakt av rosmarin), konserveringsmedel (natriumnitrit))), cheddarost 6%, vatten, grädde, majsstärkelse, rapsolja, vetemjöl, salt, basilika, svartpeppar, vitpeppar, kokt pasta 44% (vatten, durumvetemjöl)

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E392 Extracts of rosemary

As written on the pack

Pasta med ost - och skinksås. Djupfryst. Ingredienser: Ingredienser: 56 % ost - och skinksås [skummjölk, köttberedning (2,4 % skinka, 2,4 % fläskbog, potatisstärkelse, salt, socker, antioxidationsmedel: extrakt av rosmarin; konserveringsmedel: natriumnitrit)], 6% cheddarost, vatten, grädde, majsstärkelse, rapsolja, vetemjöl, salt, basilika, svartpeppar, vitpeppar, 44 % kokt pasta (vatten, durumvetemjöl). Kan innehålla spår av ägg.

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.

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Preservation and traditional processing

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

  • E250 Sodium nitrite 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 84 frozen ready-made meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 25th. 69% of the frozen ready-made 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 84 frozen ready-made meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7310500188607, last edited 25 May 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.