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Is Dafgårds Spagetti Bolognese ultra-processed?

400 g Beef dishes Sold in Sweden

Pack of Dafgårds Spagetti Bolognese

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Pasta 42% (durumvete, vatten), vatten, tomat, nötkött 9%, lök, ost, tomatpuré, morot, vetemjöl, selleri, salt, rapsolja, vitlök, socker, stärkelse, köttfond (nötkött, vatten), vitvinsvinäger, kryddor

As written on the pack

Pasta 42 % (durumvete, vatten), vatten, tomat, nötkött 9 %, lök, ost, tomatpuré, morot, vetemjöl, selleri, salt, rapsolja, vitlök, socker, stärkelse, köttfond (nötkött, vatten), vitvinsvinäger, kryddor.

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.

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 69 beef dishes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 55% of the beef dishes 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 69 beef dishes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7310960648871, 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.