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Is Findus Pasta Carbonara ultra-processed?

1 100 g Carbonara-style pasta Sold in Sweden

Pack of Findus Pasta Carbonara

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:

  • 32 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Kokt pasta 44% (durumvetemjöl), vatten, rapsolja, Carbonarasås 46% (Skummjölk), vatten, rökt bacon 4.4% (griskött, salt, kryddor, socker, kryddextrakt, konserveringsmedel (natriumnitrit), antioxidationsmedel (natriumaskorbat), röksmak från bokträ), ost, grädde 3%, ägg, majsstärkelse, rapsolja, vetemjöl, salt, svartpeppar, vitlöks, gurkmeja, paprika, Grönsaker (Ärter 6%), champinjoner 4%

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E301 Sodium ascorbate

As written on the pack

Kokt pasta 44 %: durumvetemjöl, vatten, rapsolja. Carbonarasås 46 %: Skummjölk, vatten, rökt bacon 4,4 % (griskött, salt, kryddor, socker, kryddextrakt, konserveringsmedel (natriumnitrit), antioxidationsmedel (natriumaskorbat), röksmak från bokträ), ost, grädde 3 %, ägg, majsstärkelse, rapsolja, vetemjöl, salt, svartpeppar, vitlökspulver, gurkmeja, paprikapulver. Grönsaker: Ärter 6 %, champinjoner 4 %.

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.

  • 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.
  • 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 11 carbonara-style pasta

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 55% of the carbonara-style pasta 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 11 carbonara-style pasta, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7310500016009, 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.