Is Findus Köttfärssås Italieninspirerad ultra-processed?

500g Pasta sauces Sold in Germany and Norway

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Starch
Sugar
Vegetable oil

15 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score C

Less processed pasta sauces

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

Tomatpuré 32%, vatten, griskött 20%, lök, majsstärkelse (processing marker), socker (processing marker), salt (processing marker), solrosolja (processing marker), vitlök, basilika, syra (citronsyra), oregano, vitpeppar, lökpulver

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Tomatpuré 32 %, vatten, griskött 20 %, lök, majsstärkelse, socker, salt, solrosolja, vitlök, basilika, syra (citronsyra), oregano, vitpeppar, lökpulver.

What makes it processed

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.
Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 317 pasta sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 136th. 49% of the pasta sauces 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 317 pasta sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7310500025964, last edited 19 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.