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Is Chef Select Pasta Pomodoro ultra-processed?

400 g Microwave meals Sold in Sweden

Pack of Chef Select Pasta Pomodoro

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomat 45%, pasta 19% (durumvete, vatten), mozzarellaost 10% (mjölk, salt, syrningskultur, löpe), vatten, gul lök, olivolja, selleri, tomatpuré, morot, vitlök, salt, socker, basilika 0.3%, vitpeppar

As written on the pack

Tomat 45 %, pasta 19 % (durumvete, vatten), mozzarellaost 10 % (mjölk, salt, syrningskultur, löpe), vatten, gul lök, olivolja, selleri, tomatpuré, morot, vitlök, salt, socker, basilika 0,3 %, malen vitpeppar.

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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 350 microwave meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 37th. 72% of the microwave 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 350 microwave meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489265566, 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.