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Is Culinea Köttbullar med sås & potatis ultra-processed?

400 g Microwave meals Sold in Sweden

Pack of Culinea Köttbullar med sås & potatis

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:

  • 43 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed microwave meals

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

Potatis 37.5% (potatis, rapsolja, druvsocker), köttbullar 23% (fläskkött, potatis, nötkött, stärkelse, lök, rapsolja, ägg, skummjölkspulver, salt, betfiber, vitpeppar, lök), sås 17.5% (skummjölk, vatten, morötter, stärkelse, grädde, rapsolja, lök, nötköttsbuljong, rotselleri, salt, karamelliserat socker, socker, grönsakskoncentrat (tomat, morot, lök), svartvinbärspuré, vitpeppar), grönsaker 15% (morötter 10%, romanabönor 5%), lingonberedning (lingon 3%, socker, stärkelse)

As written on the pack

Potatis 37,5% (potatis, rapsolja, druvsocker), köttbullar 23% (fläskkött, potatis, nötkött, stärkelse, lök, rapsolja, ägg, skummjölkspulver, salt, betfiber, vitpeppar, lökpulver), sås 17,5% (skummjölk, vatten, morötter, stärkelse (innehåller vete), grädde, rapsolja, lök, nötköttsbuljong, rotselleri, salt, karamelliserat socker, socker, grönsakskoncentrat (tomat, morot, lök), svartvinbärspuré, vitpeppar), grönsaker 15% (morötter 10%, romanabönor 5%), lingonberedning (lingon 3%, socker, stärkelse).

What makes it ultra-processed

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.
6 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • 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.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 351 microwave meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 117th. 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 351 microwave meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20553937, 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.