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Is Chef Select Sausage & Cheese Tortelloni ultra-processed?

Stuffed pastas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Chef Select Sausage & Cheese Tortelloni

Yes, it's ultra-processed

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

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 57 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

Wheat Flour, Egg 12%, Pork Sausage 9.5% (Pork 8.645%, Water, Salt, Vegetable Fibre, Bamboo, Peal, Dextrose, Natural Flavourings, Preservative (Potassium Nitrate)), Durum Wheat Semolina, Water, Cooked Mortadella Pork Sausage 5% (Pork 4.8%, Water, Salt, Natural Flavourings, Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)), Breadcrumbs (Wheat Flour, Salt, Yeast), Whey Powder, Cooked Ham (Pork, Water, Salt, Dextrose, Sugar, Flavourings, Spices, Stabilisers (Carrageenan), Sodium Phosphates, Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)), Ricotta Soft Cheese (contains Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid)), Sunflower Oil, Vegetable Fibre (Bamboo, Psyllium), Smoked Provolone Semi-hard Cheese 0.7%, Salt, Garlic, Nutmeg, Black Pepper, including Cereals containing Gluten

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E252 Potassium nitrate , E301 Sodium ascorbate , E330 Citric acid , E339 Sodium phosphates , E407 Carrageenan

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour, 12% Egg, 9.5% Pork Sausage (91% Pork, Water, Salt, Vegetable Fibre [Bamboo, Peal, Dextrose, Natural Flavourings, Preservative: Potassium Nitrate), Durum Wheat Semolina, Water, 5% Cooked Mortadella Pork Sausage ( 96% Pork, Water, Salt, Natural Flavourings, Antioxidant: Sodium Ascorbate; Preservative: Sodium Nitrite), Breadcrumbs (Wheat Flour, Salt, Yeast), Whey Powder (Milk), Smoked Cooked Ham (70% Pork, Water, Salt. Dextrose, Sugar, Flavourings, Spices, Stabilisers: Carrageenan, Sodium Phosphates; Antioxidant: Sodium Ascorbate; Preservative: Sodium Nitrite), Ricotta Soft Cheese (Milk) (contains Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid), Sunflower Oil, Vegetable Fibre (Bamboo, Psyllium), 0.7% Smoked Provolone Semi-hard Cheese (Milk), Salt, Garlic, Nutmeg, Black Pepper. Allergy Advice: For allergens, including Cereals containing Gluten, see ingredients in bold. May also contain Celery, Crustaceans, Fish, Mustard, Nuts and Soya.

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.

  • E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
7 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.

  • 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.
  • E252 Potassium nitrate 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.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 149 stuffed pastas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 147th. 76% of the stuffed pastas 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 149 stuffed pastas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489523963, last edited 16 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.