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Is Deluxe Spinach and pine nut pasta ultra-processed?

215 g Pasta salads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Deluxe Spinach and pine nut pasta

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
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

ingredients 62% cooked riccioli pasta (durum wheat semolina, water), rapeseed oil, regato cheese 5% (regato cheese, potato starch), basil, water, spinach 3.5%, lemon juice, pecorino cheese, pine nuts 1%, red wine vinegar, salt, garlic purée, sugar, cracked black pepper, preservative (potassium sorbate), acid (citric acid)

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

ingredients 62% cooked riccioli pasta (durum wheat semolina, water), rapeseed oil, 5% regato cheese (regato cheese (milk), potato starch), basil, water, 3,5% spinach, lemon juice, pecorino cheese (milk), 1% pine nuts, red wine vinegar, salt, garlic purée, sugar, cracked black pepper, preservative: potassium sorbate, acid: citric acid,

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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate 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 42 pasta salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 60% of the pasta salads 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 42 pasta salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20421441, last edited 14 July 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.