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Is Findus Dagens Pasta fyra ostar ultra-processed?

390 g Microwave meals Sold in Sweden

Pack of Findus Dagens Pasta fyra ostar

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Ostsås 42% (Skummjölk), griskött (skinka, bog, vatten, potatisstärkelse, salt, socker, rosmarinextrakt, natriumnitrit), grädde, ost 5% (emmentaler, maasdam, parmesan), ostpulver (blåmögel), majsstärkelse, rapsolja, vetemjöl, skummjölkspulver, salt, persilja, Pasta 40% (Vatten), durumvetemjöl, Grönsaker 18% (Tomathalvor), broccoli

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E392 Extracts of rosemary

As written on the pack

Ostsås 42 %: Skummjölk, griskött (skinka, bog, vatten, potatisstärkelse, salt, socker, rosmarinextrakt, konserveringsmedel (natriumnitrit)), grädde, ost 5% (emmentaler, maasdam, parmesan), ostpulver (blåmögel), majsstärkelse, rapsolja, vetemjöl, skummjölkspulver, salt, persilja. Pasta 40 %: Vatten, durumvetemjöl. Grönsaker 18 %: Tomathalvor, broccoli.

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

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.

  • 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.

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 351 microwave meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 90th. 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 7310500088853, last edited 2 September 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.