Is Ella's Kitchen Bangers & mash ultra-processed?

130 g Microwave meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Ella's Kitchen Bangers & mash

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Open Food Facts counts every product in its category, meals, as at least group 3.

  • 17 ingredients
  • No additives

Ingredients

vegetable stock 61.19402985074627% (water, vegetables (swedes), parsnips, leeks, carrots, onions), potatoes 19.402985074626866%, carrots 17.91044776119403%, breadcrumbs 1.492537313432836% (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin, yeast)

As written on the pack

Organic vegetable stock 41% (water and organic vegetables: swedes, parsnips, leeks, carrots, onions), Organic potatoes 13%, Organic carrots 12%, Organic breadcrumbs 1% (organic wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron*, niacin*, thiamin*, yeast*).

What makes it processed

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 28th. 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 5060107335103, last edited 15 January 2025), 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.